Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Habits change into character.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.
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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
