Claire Tomalin Quotes

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkChildrenJobThinkingEvening

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Joe Mantegna

LifeWrongWantPublicRacket

You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.

John Cena

MyselfPersonalityPeopleMeYouGo

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.

Andrea Hirata

FamilyHomeKnowIslandBoyAlways

I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.

Megan Fox

HateNeverOutBeingGoingDeal

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Robert Gottlieb

YourselfBookYouSometimesKind

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

Robert Herjavec

PassionMoneyLongBeforeHad

During his last 18 months in office, Eisenhower flew to Asia, Europe, and Latin America and deployed his war hero's popularity to seek new friends for America while trying to improve relations with Moscow. By the time Ike left office, most Americans had forgotten their anger over losing the space race to the Soviets.

Michael Beschloss

TimeHeroAngerWarLosingSpace

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!

Sophie Turner

MottoBelieveYouAchieveMy Motto

'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.

Spike Jonze

MeThinkHelpReadyMy OwnWild

Here's the most mysterious thing to me. I look back at those first plays I did and the first movies I did, and I only have one question, which is, 'What was I so confident about? Where did I get that?

Mike Nichols

MeConfidentLookBackMoviesFirst

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Joichi Ito

PowerDemocracyMediaNowCheckOur

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

Dennis Banks

EuropeThroughMilesAcrossCovering

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