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Tom Stoppard Quotes

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Tom Stoppard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment End You Why 100 Years Asking

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Andrew Denton

Faith Hate People Blind You Country

Now that I'm an adult and have a big say in what we eat on Christmas Day, turkey doesn't even make it on to the starting grid for consideration. It isn't just my least favourite meat; it's my least favourite protein.

John Lanchester

Day Now Say Christmas Eat Meat

Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

John Hurt

I Am Me Actor Things Hire Different

I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get them, once I have kids they are gonna get bigger anyway.

Summer Altice

Good I Am Better Body Look Become

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Mikhail Bakunin

God Best Boss Heaven Earth Exist

The Premier League is the best competition in the world, and it's not easy to win a league with great teams like Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, and Arsenal as rivals.

Luka Modric

Great Best Man Competition City Win

There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.

Judi Shekoni

Good Talent People Think You Choice

I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.

Joshua Ostrander

House Play Everything Out Trumpet

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

Food Broken Promises Made

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Doris Lessing

Yourself Amazing Someone You Find

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

Chris Crutcher

Character Time Best Me Believe Find

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

Brad Schneider

Work People End American Political