Claire Tomalin Quotes
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
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It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!
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I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
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Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
