Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
