Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
Kate Bush -
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup -
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
Rain -
I want to play interesting women.
Rachel Weisz -
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
Kara Swisher -
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece -
I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
Ralph Fiennes -
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci -
I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
Taylor Branch -
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
Foster Friess
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
Irvin D. Yalom -
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
E. L. Doctorow -
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban -
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
Edie Campbell -
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing - not surprisingly - that many slave masters were sadists who spent a lot of time thinking up creative ways of hurting people.
Colson Whitehead -
My son is a tree surgeon and gets me a lovely tree. I like to put it up early, as I can't wait for Christmas. We dress it with decorations that have been in the family for years.
Mary Berry -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard