Tom Stoppard Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The world is too violent right now.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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Vail Resorts School of Shred program is a great way to help encourage kids to stay active by getting them outside and on the mountain.
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Always have a plan when you shop. Have your list ready so that you know who you're purchasing gifts for and an estimate on how much you're going to spend.
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Music was my one way to vent.
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I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
