Claire Tomalin Quotes
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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A soup manufacturer uses the same colors and design on every label to catch the consumer's eye and assure her that she's getting brand-name quality, whether she's buying bean soup or corn chowder or cream of tomato.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
