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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• 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.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• 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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• 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.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Always
  • Working
  • Out

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• 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.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Justice

• Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Being
  • Coward
  • Frightened

• I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Day
  • Sleep

• 'Skins' was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren't trained, this new generation, this new culture.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • People
  • Great
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Writing
  • Small