Tom Stoppard Quotes
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I already am a product.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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Kids are funny.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
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Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
