Tom Stoppard Quotes

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

Tom Stoppard

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• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.

  

  Raghav Bahl
  • Believe
  • News
  • Journalism

• There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Born
  • Raised

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Real
  • Happy
  • Myself

• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Today
  • Year

• There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Independent

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Distance

• If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • You
  • Independent

• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Vices

• I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Very

• I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book

• 'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

  

  Arthur Darvill
  • Good
  • Different

• If Real want me, they will call me one day, and, if not, no problem. I live my life and am optimistic about the future.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Financial

• It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Situation

• Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

  

  James Salter

• I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Design
  • Direct