Tom Stoppard Quotes

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Tom Stoppard

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• Doe
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• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

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• Being queen is overrated.

  

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• I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

  

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• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

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• One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

  

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• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

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• If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

  

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• He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Doe