Claire Tomalin Quotes
I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
