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Tom Stoppard Quotes

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Tom Stoppard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Think Kind Way Real Tension

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'

John Caudwell

Best Go Kind Size Little Anything

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Andy Roddick

You Know Out Get Knocked Throw

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

Spike Jonze

Confident More Wild Things Where

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Studs Terkel

Past Want Praise Years Honored Well

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sonia Johnson

Failure Fear Heart Most

Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Dance Sometimes Release Concentration

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

Roger Zelazny

Day Down Three Try Write Sit

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

Roberto Alomar

Family Friends Person Become Glad

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

Mike Figgis

Music Power You Harmony Know Sound

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

Mike Gallagher

Life People Living Way Box Many

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

Michelle Wie

Best Game Trying Play See Own

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Polanyi

Acceptance Words Language Belief Use