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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Respect Words World Think

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

Rob Van Dam

History School High School Know High

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown

Negative Better Inspiration Deadline

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Rita Mae Brown

Life Best Writing Not Knowing Know

I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.

Rush Limbaugh

Life Today School Growing Up World

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

Martine Syms

Value Ideas Create Machines Making

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

Jason Reitman

Challenge Hate People Opinion Think

It's better to write a pilot rather than write a spec show. In some cases, you have to do both, but more often, writing a pilot and having an original voice is more important.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Writing Voice Better You Important

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Alone Man Society Universe Group

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Bruce Dickinson

Best Me Window World Care You

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Arthur Balfour

Talking Done Strike Class More Days

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

Bridgette Wilson

Good Me Basketball Forward Loved

Print publications have to be as luxurious an experience as possible. You have to feel it coming off the page. You have to see photographs and pieces that you couldn't possibly see anywhere else.

Anna Wintour

Experience Feel You Page Possible