Tom Stoppard Quotes

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• No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • War
  • Car

• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
  • Nature

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Good
  • Think
  • Discipline

• It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Value

• I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Want
  • Imagination

• The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Great
  • Art
  • Individual

• Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Women
  • Book
  • American

• Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Cameras

• It's an honor. It's tough enough just to make an All-Star team, but when you're able to be a starter, it just says a lot about being pretty much one of the faces of the NBA because the fans pick you.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Star

• We have to be capable of facing such a number.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Capable
  • Number
  • Facing

• Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Children
  • Teach

• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Play

• Studies have shown touch to be the primary language of compassion, love and gratitude - emotions at the heart of trust and cooperation - even more than facial expressions and voice. Touch is the central medium in which the goodness of one individual can spread to another. Touch is the original contact high.

  

  Dacher Keltner
  • Heart
  • High
  • Trust

• I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Drawing
  • Events
  • Sides

• I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Sun
  • Looks
  • Sides

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• My children are grown now, they are more independent.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Children
  • Independent
  • Now

• Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

  

  H. Rider Haggard

• I take every possible side.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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