Tom Stoppard Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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One day, my male companion (they took me for the female) told me what had really caused him to wander about the world and finally to leave it for the Moon. He had not been able to find a single country where the imagination was free.
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I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.
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Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.
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Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.
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We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
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We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.
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I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
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There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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I approach any collaboration I do differently.
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
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Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
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It is a conscious choice to go for content-driven scripts because that is the key for any film to work. There are no two ways about it, and I have always been attracted to great content.
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Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
