Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
