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Claire Tomalin Quotes

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Energy More Him Like Expected

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

Age Great Depression Suffering Hit

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Technology Not Perfect You Perfect

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

Michelle Alexander

Risks Support Professional System

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

Michael O'Keefe

Cool Doing Play Over Interpretation

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

Tattoos Get Wanted Afford

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

Hat Sun Hats Celebrity She Image

We tried to act trendy. We took one of our songs and tried to make a dance mix. They put it on the turntables, unannounced, in Los Angeles and New York the same weekend, where they had a big dance crowd going wild. It cleared the floor on both coasts.

Dance New York Weekend New Wild Big

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Water Body Drink Toxic Out Coconut

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Myself Fitness I Am People Pride

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Best School Smart Parents Me High

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.

Music Hate People Me Saying Feel

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

Woman War World She Soldiers Far

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