Claire Tomalin Quotes
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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Falling in love – you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.
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If I was blond and tall, then I would have had 10 times the competition. I auditioned steadily and performed for everyone who would hire me. Now I am in a position to pick and choose my roles.
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Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.
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'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
