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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Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.
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I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.
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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.
