Tom Stoppard Quotes

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Tom Stoppard

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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

John Denver

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In the English league, there are great players everywhere. It's impressive.

Matteo Guendouzi

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I'm not in denial about technology, but my mother used to say when I was a kid, 'Son, you're handless,' because I couldn't fix anything. My ambition is to be a Luddite.

Stephen Rea

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If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

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I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

Robert T. Bakker

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My songs have a layer of melancholy.

Mat Kearney

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And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

Luanne Rice

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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Doug Aitken

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I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Brad Thor

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I want to be a bi-continental working actor and writer.

Shenaz Treasury

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