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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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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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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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
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The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
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I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
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The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.
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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.
