Tom Stoppard Quotes
Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
Quotes to Explore
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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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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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so.
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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
