Tom Stoppard Quotes
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.
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I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a physical actor.
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Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.
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I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
