Tom Stoppard Quotes

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Tom Stoppard

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Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

Jen Sincero

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I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.

Anderson Paak

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It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

Anderson Cooper

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I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

Matthew Williamson

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I lived in Japan when I was younger for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night.

Sturgill Simpson

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Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.

Tony Hillerman

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Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

Michel Martelly

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Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

Jonathan Demme

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For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.

Johnny Depp

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I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

Dinah Sheridan

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I never wanted to let go of the opportunity, and so I hit upon 'VIP 2'.

Dhanush

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U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

Cliff Stearns

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