Tom Stoppard Quotes
A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I hate the domestic life.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.
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I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.
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I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
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Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.
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A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
