Claire Tomalin Quotes

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimePeopleMeRememberQuietMeet

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

Robert Lopez

FirstTopComeKidsOurPriority

We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least.

Ann McLane Kuster

TaxMoreNeedOrderGiveMost

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

Stephen Colletti

WorkDreamsYour DreamsPeopleWorld

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

Steven Hall

LoveYourselfSpaceClimbStoryYou

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.

Simon Schama

WorldEatingBelieveFishSelling

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Mike Murdock

LifeChangeDailyYouWillNever

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

Molly Shannon

TimeStruggleSchoolThinkBetter

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

Dick Morris

ChangeGreatPoliticalNowNeed

Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

David Slade

LoveBestMovingDirectionYouFind

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Anne Rice

KnowledgeWorldUnknownMindsTry

I love the Beatles. Now I know I'm a good few decades late on this one, but I've always been behind the curve.

Alfred Enoch

LoveGoodLateKnowNowAlways

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Susan George

ControlBetterArmyYouPowerful

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