Claire Tomalin Quotes

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1933

Topics

ChangeWomenPastPictureTraffic

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Capriati

I CanPlaySayWantTryUp

I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to the Mab - it was raw, interesting intense scene, so I was very drawn to it, but I was a total outsider.

Jennifer Egan

InterestingPunkOutsiderIntense

I've gotten so into the thing of moving, moving, moving, but I'm desperate to have a home. I just want my own little spot - I'm saving, but it's difficult because of the shopping... I'm actually addicted to online shopping - it's something about the packages arriving!

Suki Waterhouse

HomeMovingShoppingWantMy Own

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.

Mickalene Thomas

CharacterMeAlwaysEraTransforming

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Chief Seattle

EarthLandProtectOwnShareOnly

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

Chuck Klosterman

WorkPeopleBookCareMediaYou

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Ashton Kutcher

LiveCharacterNightSaturdayYou

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

Psy

TimeI AmCrazyNightLadyRight

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Pete Townshend

ThinkLongStoneFirstRollingFour

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward

AlwaysSomethingFrenchFishyAbout

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

Nicolas Roeg

LifeLoveStoryLife Story

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Maria Edgeworth

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