Claire Tomalin Quotes
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.Claire Tomalin
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
Barbara Jordan -
The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey -
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga -
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
Ed Harris -
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
Iman -
Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
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.
Ted Danson -
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
Hanna Rosin -
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos -
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Iggy Pop -
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda -
It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
Paloma Elsesser -
Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel Castro
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude -
Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
Andy Rooney -
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
Adrian Tomine -
Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink
Ted Dekker -
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
Claire Tomalin