Tom Stoppard Quotes

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

Tom Stoppard

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I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

Jim Brown

PeopleViolenceCountryStopYoung

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

Angus Deaton

TimeJobTearsOpportunitiesTrying

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

Anish Kapoor

BelieveArtistMustOneselfThose

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

John Piper

LifeGodYouAuthorityOverGive

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.

Tony Danza

TogetherTrainingThinkYouGymUp

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

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Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

Tom Shales

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In my family, I'm short.

Rosario Dawson

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The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what you wear. People care so much about that these days.

Ruth Wilson

PeopleMeCareYouDressedDays

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.

Michael Pollan

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I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Chris Hayes

StartJournalismLaborBloodGot

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

Chrissy Teigen

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