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.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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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.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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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.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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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.
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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.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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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.
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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
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What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
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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.
