Claire Tomalin Quotes
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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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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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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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 think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.
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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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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
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I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.
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I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
