Tom Stoppard Quotes
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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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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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
