Tom Stoppard Quotes
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.
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Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.
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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
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Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
