Tom Stoppard Quotes
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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America is huge.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
