Tom Stoppard Quotes
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?Tom Stoppard
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese -
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga -
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
Larry Brown
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
Ted Sarandos -
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria -
My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
Faith Evans -
When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
Finn Jones -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams -
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd -
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones -
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
Taylor Swift -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
George A. Romero -
When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
Jill Scott -
I don't consider what I do 'art.' It's 'storytelling.'
Brian Stelfreeze -
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
Bill Vaughan -
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Tom Stoppard