Claire Tomalin Quotes
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Being evil is easy.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.
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Beauty is embarrassing for three reasons. When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in. Number two... People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly. Number three... Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line. It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty. So that's just three of several reasons why I think beauty is embarrassing.
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Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
