Tom Stoppard Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
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If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
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Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
