Tom Stoppard Quotes
Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
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We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?
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Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.
