Tom Stoppard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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Notice the times in your life when you go above and beyond simply because you care so much.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....
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There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
