Tom Stoppard Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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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 was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
