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.Tom Stoppard
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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.
Karan Johar -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
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.
Edith Piaf -
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
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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.
Bartlett Sher -
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.
Vanna Bonta -
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
Larry Hogan -
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
H. L. Mencken -
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe -
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph
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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.
Bat for Lashes -
Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara -
For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
Zoe Sugg -
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
Patrick Kane -
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
Barry Eisler -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.
Neel Mukherjee -
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
Yann Martel -
Open-source is a means of production.
Bruce Sterling -
It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Dr. John is phenomenal. Dr. John is a heavyweight and one of the nicest guys in the world -- unhurried, and he plays very unhurried. His life is that way. And as for being an ambassador for New Orleans sound and New Orleans music, he's doing it to the bone.
Allen Toussaint -
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.
Tom Stoppard