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

Tom Stoppard

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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.

  

  Jack Dee
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• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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.

  

  E. L. James
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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!

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.'

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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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.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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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.

  

  Action Bronson
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• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• 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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
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• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • Relationship

• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  

  Tea Leoni
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  • Dress

• I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
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• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act, that's a renewable resource, let's renew it.

  

  Al Gore
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• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

  

  Lee Iacocca
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• Everything you rejected and pushed aside-take it up again.

  

  Elias Canetti
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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

  

  Tom Stoppard
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