Tom Stoppard Quotes
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
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I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions... wow, it's an amazing story.
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.
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Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
