Claire Tomalin Quotes
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
