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Tom Stoppard Quotes

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 3, 1937

Topics

God Think Sometimes Shut Up Up Shut

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

People Decisions Feel Worry Meaning

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

Success Judge You Even Means Brings

The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.

Best World Person Never Planned Who

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Home Time King Sweet World Pig

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Singing Bathroom Nothing Out Coming

At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.

Time Bike Living Ground Pretty Zero

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

Lucas Papademos

Job I Am Unity Problems Easy Way

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Science Respect Architecture Society

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

Change Technology Name Look Know

I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.

Future Great People Story Think Way

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Good Talking Newspaper Nation Itself

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

Good Artist Strive Always Audience

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