Tom Stoppard Quotes
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
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The first humans to come to Canada were the Indians. There is some mystery as to where the Indians came from. Some experts say that they came from the same place as the Eskimo. This doesn't help much because nobody knows where the Eskimo came from either. (Except the Eskimo, and they aren't talking.)
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He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.
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It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
