Tom Stoppard Quotes
I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
Nastassja Kinski
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I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
