Claire Tomalin Quotes

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMoneyLunchSmallBookNothing

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

Meg Ryan

MyselfActingDefineSolely

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.

Robert Lepage

YourselfVegasYouPossibleDarkest

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

PeopleNeverAlwaysResolveAnything

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Jeanne Phillips

MotherFriendsStrangersKnowAlways

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

LeadershipSuccessManagementWall

Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. It takes courage to ride a profit with huge leverage.

Stanley Druckenmiller

CourageRideMeYouPigProfit

A high heel elongates the leg and inevitably flatters every figure.

Stacey Bendet

HighLegEveryFigureHeelFlatters

I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.

Stan Wawrinka

LosingEasyFindTryAlwaysMatch

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

Rob Sheffield

AttitudeYouBeatBeehiveGlam

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.

Martin O'Malley

SchoolHigh SchoolHomeworkBodyHim

People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

Jon Fishman

LivePeopleFreeThinkTryingLevel

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Concha Buika

LoveMyselfConflictFeelYouBig

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