Tom Stoppard Quotes

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

Tom Stoppard

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MyselfPersonWantWayOverSee

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Stacy Schiff

LovePowerPoliticsPoliticalMatter

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sue Monk Kidd

LifeWritingCivil RightsSecret

I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.

Sia

LifeLoveDanceLearnMy LifeFirst

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

Trofim Lysenko

RoadThinkingBiologyCountryRight

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

Jon Hamm

LeaderAttentionYouKindActorSet

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

Bob Weir

MeGameNameLightsHeatStage

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Thomas More

MeHoundWhoever

Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.

Morris Gleitzman

OpportunitiesEndParentMoreTrauma

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

Mark Waters

VisionStartBookBe DifferentKind

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

Marquis de Lafayette

QueenKingNowOpenExistFrance

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican.

Kevin Hart

WomenGirlRelationshipWifeBlack

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.

George J. Mitchell

GoodGovernmentYouWillTrySeem

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