Claire Tomalin Quotes

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I will try to make our politics more human.

Andrej Kiska

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In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Andrew Mason

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I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

John Lanchester

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I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

Ana de Armas

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I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

Rod Steiger

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WWE and I have a long history, and I remember some very fun days back in the day.

Roddy Piper

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There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

Ruben Hinojosa

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I was the first one in my family to go to college.

Maryanne Trump Barry

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New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

Jonah Hill

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You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Diego Della Valle

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Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Bobby Sherman

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What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

Anne McCaffrey

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