Claire Tomalin Quotes

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

Anna Gunn

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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

Matt Damon

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Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Ron Fournier

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We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

Mike Davidson

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The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

Miroslav Volf

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The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig

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So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Jon Secada

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We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.

Dick Durbin

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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Pete Townshend

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God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

Mark Goulston

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I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.

Leon Bridges

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I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

LeRoy Neiman

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