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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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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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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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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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.
