Tom Stoppard Quotes

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

Tom Stoppard

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There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Jill Robinson

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While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

Jerry Saltz

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It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Angela Carter

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I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

Michael Franti

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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Jean Toomer

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Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Shirley Knight

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Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

Trevor Paglen

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By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.

Ron Chernow

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We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.

Michio Kaku

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I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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Cub Swanson was the first to talk a lot on fight week in the WEC, and I got there and ran through him.

Jose Aldo

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Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Dianne Reeves

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