Tom Stoppard Quotes
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
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It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
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Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.
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There was never a game plan to be on social media. Like most things in life, if you work consistently and at your pace, then things fall into place.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
