Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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I don't get hung up about anything really.
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I've always put myself intensely into my work.
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If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
