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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Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.
William Shakespeare
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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody
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When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.
Brock Osweiler
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When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.
Jane Seymour
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
Tom Stoppard