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Claire Tomalin Quotes

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Man Voice House Young Young Man He

The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

John Hickenlooper

Value Social Preschool Educational

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

Robert Gottlieb

Story Final Illumination Anyone

Sometimes you'll write while listening to a piece of music and think it's great, but then you'll go back and read it without the music and go, 'This sucks.'

Music Great Listening Think You Go

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.

People Start Think End You Know

People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era. The Gutenberg galaxy was about the written word. At its best, the digital era is part of the rediscovery of the oral. At its worst, it's a Kafkaesque victory of the bureaucratic over the imagination.

John Ralston Saul

Best Imagination People Victory End

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

Stephen Merchant

People Trying Years Humour Through

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

Rest Three More Write Out Disappear

People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

Work Funny People World Place True

I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans.

Memories Me Career Important Old

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Love Kindness Rich You Spirit Sign

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

Today Hotel You Years See Twenty

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Learning Science Me Explore Basic

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