Claire Tomalin Quotes

I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• Ozzy has dyslexia.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Dyslexia
  • Ozzy

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Power
  • Everyone
  • Equal

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Best

• My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Family
  • Road

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human powerWhich could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil longOf him who treasures up a wrong.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Up
  • Search

• The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

  

  James Buchan
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Financial

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People

• I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • People
  • Trying
  • History