Tom Stoppard Quotes
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
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Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.
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All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
