Claire Tomalin Quotes

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

Jesmyn Ward

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I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

John Oliver

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Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.

Maurizio Cattelan

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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can't imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.

Sonny Mehta

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The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

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If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Christopher McDonald

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When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

Arfi Lamba

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People made fun of my skinny legs.

Shawn Mendes

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Every day, I wake up eager to learn new things, and I am grateful to Mourinho for that.

Sergio Ramos

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At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

Scott Weiss

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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

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