Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
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India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups
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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
