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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Purpose Think Comedy Serious I Think

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Job You Belonging Actor Company

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

Up Complete Still Set

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

Robert Kocharian

Job Government You Transition Want

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

Work Trying Want Director Years Got

My best friends are women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama, I ran on a platform of change.

Change Women Best Friends Like Much

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

Work Children Training Step Me Grow

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

Job I Am Pressure Nervous Begin Get

I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Life Depression Me Think My Life Go

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

Habit Eating White Popcorn Eat Been

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

People Cool You Early Television

I've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work on wonderful shows.

Michelle MacLaren

Work Opportunity Wonderful Fortunate

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Yourself You Shooting Foot Isolate

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