Claire Tomalin Quotes

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

Jim Foglesong

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Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

Jillian Michaels

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I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

Jessica Lynch

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Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'

John Fusco

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Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

Melvyn Bragg

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I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Andre Previn

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My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant.

John James Audubon

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My character in 'The Caller' is very normal.

Stephen Moyer

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What I like about 'Lay the Favourite' is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.

Joshua Jackson

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A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Donnie Yen

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I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Brian Greene

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The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.

Brian Reitzell

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