Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Never stop listening to your audience.
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I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
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Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.
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Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
