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Claire Tomalin Quotes

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Time Words Poetry Treat Look

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation.

Jerry Robinson

Identity Story America You Look

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Max Weber

Justice Evil View Morality Modern

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Amity Shlaes

War World World War I Out Forever

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

Stephen Hopkins

People Saying Forward Go Without

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Tracey Emin

Women Ascend Careers Later Plateau

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.

Michel Faber

Writing Think Care You Serious

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Door Think Key Down Stairs Said

Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.

Jean Chatzky

Money Gold Credit You Cards Wrong

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

Jason Robards

Money Wait Start Better Long You

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Jonathan Swift

Fool Wonder First I Wonder Invented

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

Diana Nyad

Experience Two Years Last Been

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.

Chelsea Leyland

Fun Have Fun Trying Young Always