Tom Stoppard Quotes
Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I don't do meetings.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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The power of God is the worship He inspires.... The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
