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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.

Tom Stoppard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love End You Find Out Text

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Jerome Kern

Music Me Better Credit Write Like

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always - it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.

Joe Taslim

Me Think Week Movies Actor Kid

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

Anna Deavere Smith

People Now Write Right Even Many

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Steve Forbert

Powerful Three Never Something Just

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Sophocles

Enemies Mockery Sweetest Our Mock

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

Tony Hillerman

Best Wind Stand Feel Landscape Get

My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.

Michael Pollan

Nature Food World Wilderness Back

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Lord Mountbatten

Job King You First Prime Refuse

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

Loretta Lynn

Swimming You Hungry Salmon Get

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Dennis Quaid

Love Yourself Luck You Acting Know

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

Christopher Lloyd

Love Imagination I Am Me World End

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

Coy Bowles

Challenge People Me Anxiety Meeting