Tom Stoppard Quotes
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
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After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
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To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
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The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
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To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
