Tom Stoppard Quotes
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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I don't study; I create.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.
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Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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