Claire Tomalin Quotes

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Greatest
  • Weakness

• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Hate

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Popular

• We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Football

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• 'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Parents
  • Dad

• No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • City
  • Morning

• The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Time
  • Relationship

• You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Long
  • America

• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Dirty

• I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

  

  Claire Tomalin
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