Tom Stoppard Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.
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My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
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I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
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Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
