Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.
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One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am so I used that time to write. And I chose to write about food and wine. Along the way I carved out a role for myself.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
