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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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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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'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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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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Obama was elected by the people, and I was glad that barrier was broken down. I did, along with my wife, campaign for him in Ohio because that was a key state. If I had to say does he rate an 'A' or does he rate a 'D,' it would be very difficult. I give him a 'C.'
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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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.
