Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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I went to the school of hard knocks.
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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
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The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
