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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I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.
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I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
