Tom Stoppard Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I can paint in jail.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
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I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
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My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
