Tom Stoppard Quotes
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I love India.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.
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I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.
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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
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I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
