Tom Stoppard Quotes
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.
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You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong.She's the one - I've been toldNow she's wearing a band of gold.Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
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They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
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It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
