Tom Stoppard Quotes
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.
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I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall drag artist.
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I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
