Claire Tomalin Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.
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Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.
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The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
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It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
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I have been left-wing always, from childhood.
