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Tom Stoppard Quotes

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Water Happy Lonely Sitting Never

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Ride Direction Trends Going Easier

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

Yourself Hurt You Box Something

The power of imagination is infinite.

Power Imagination Infinite

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Death Losing Suffering Chance Giving

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

Attitude Death Rest Key End Go

James Dean and Dennis Hopper were members of the health club I went to.

Health Club James Dean Were Members

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Change Great People Society Look Up

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

Live Lie Inspired Found Recent

When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.

Good Purpose Understanding You Bad

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

Mother Husband Name Someone Year

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

Music True Spirit Always Make

Making tough decisions that may make someone unhappy is something to get good at doing.

Phoebe Robinson

Good Tough Decisions Unhappy Doing

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