Tom Stoppard Quotes
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
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I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
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I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
