Claire Tomalin Quotes
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
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It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.
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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
