Tom Stoppard Quotes
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
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Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.
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The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
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When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
