Tom Stoppard Quotes
Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
Tom Stoppard
Quotes to Explore
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
Malorie Blackman
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
Vicki Delany
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines de La Fressange
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
Laura Ingraham
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I know that women are smarter than men. I don't wanna sound like I'm on a bandwagon for chicks but I do love 'em, can't front. Women are smarter than men. I know I gotta lot of chicks up my sleeve but you guys are twice as good.
ASAP Rocky
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
Peter Straub
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
Ingrid Thulin
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I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
Tom Stoppard