Claire Tomalin Quotes

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Joe Louis

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My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.

Andrew Breitbart

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The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

Jeffrey Sachs

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I always had a tremendous amount of rage about the business, and I thought turning that into comedy was healthy.

Andy Kindler

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Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

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I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

St. Lucia

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I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

Sloane Crosley

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I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

Matisyahu

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Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Moira Kelly

LifeChildrenCreativeYouOver

I've taught people in improv classes, then watched them move to Los Angeles to become Emmy winners and movie stars. That experience, for anyone wondering, is both super exciting and also makes you put a microscope on your own life choices. It causes you to question why you still perform stand-up in so many Brooklyn basements.

Chris Gethard

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You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

Christine Baranski

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Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

Clive Anderson

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