Tom Stoppard Quotes
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.
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Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
