Tom Stoppard Quotes
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
Quotes to Explore
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
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Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.
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Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
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Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
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I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
