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Tom Stoppard Quotes

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Earth Write Own Your How

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

Work Art School Me Ideas Direction

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

Travel School Environmental Believe

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

Time Long Long Time See I See Rare

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

Positive Great Purpose Results Will

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

Me You Worst Petty Stage See

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.

Family Father People Start Language

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.

Work Integrity You Choice Leave Up

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

People Amazing Small You Lose Gain

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didn't know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

Michael Kiwanuka

Music Think New Know Because Older

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Support Budget Now Independent Need

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Chuck Klosterman

Good Liar Always Everything Honest

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Women Men Bond Think Friends See

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