Tom Stoppard Quotes

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

Tom Stoppard

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GoodCharacterPeopleMindFeelYou

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

Jennifer Damiano

ShoesMeStrongThinkDoingEasy

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

John Hawkes

WalkPeopleAchieveWhyUnderstand

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

Robert Half

GivingQuestionsSkillRightAsking

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Matthew Lewis

LearningExperienceThinkTryingYou

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

Andy Serkis

BackGoDoneWantYearsStage

In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LegalFakeNationalismCountryNews

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Robert Delaunay

NatureArtPaintingLanguage

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

Mary Beard

WomenPastThinkLiteratureYouGo

I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.

Mike Rowe

NowOldAlwaysEverythingComplain

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

ExperienceMeWorthProfessionalNew

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

Jon Tester

MusicPeopleThinkYouDoneOut

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

Johnny Galecki

CharacterMeNeverBeenConcentrate

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