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Tom Stoppard Quotes

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Reading Kind Years Before Material

It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.'

Cats Me Thoughts Thought Feelings

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person Letters Leave Behind Most

The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.

John Abercrombie

Live Business Music Time Fun You

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

Strong Financial Hand Weak Act Been

Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Mom Sister Hair Soup Thought You

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

John Lee Hancock

Go Movies Up Little Did Theater

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

History Me Fat Drawing Kind Always

My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing up, told me that I looked like Charlie Chaplin. That didn't really resonate with me when I was younger - I hadn't seen a lot of his films.

Life Funny Me Growing Up Story Aunt

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Good Competition People Me Better

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.

Government People Influence Better

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Business Succeed You Look Rules Way

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Hate Politics Generation America Cry

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