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Claire Tomalin Quotes

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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People Me Friends Closest Friends

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

Life Good Trust People You Two

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

God Light Mountain Calm Windows Us

I get bored real easy. I'm so used to L.A. and the pace that when I go home now I start thinking, 'Something's not right, something's not feelin' right.' I just gotta do what I gotta do in Oklahoma and get back to the fast-paced city.

Home City Start Thinking Easy Back

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Great Racism Religion Diversity Grow

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Work People Me Questions Person

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Time Day Men Me Gender Remember

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Time You See Count Call Resonance

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Love Together Stand Never Hard Real

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Success You Sometimes Bite Shorts

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

Yourself You Bright Protect Tennis

I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.

Seasons Back Prey Theme Days Going

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Know Insecure About

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