Tom Stoppard Quotes
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
Wallace Stevens
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We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
Paul Kantner
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If you're making a social call, don't call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people need a respite from their work - a time to unwind, uninterrupted.
Letitia Baldrige
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.
Alix Ohlin
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Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard
