Tom Stoppard Quotes

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Tom Stoppard

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• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

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• I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

  

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• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

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• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

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• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

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• You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

  

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• Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

  

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• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

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• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

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• When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

  

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• If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.

  

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• Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

  

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• My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Work
  • Truth
  • True