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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Writing Unhappy Wrong Going

I feel my writing comes from a desire to... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.

Journey Myself Writing Feel Desire

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

Business People You Want Become Guy

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

Nose Must Who Wipe Those Bloody

I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.

Work Time Theatre Drive American Up

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Life Knowledge Mad Say Mean Return

I'm proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.

Proud Better Feel Country Democrats

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Star Arts Film Martial Arts Wanted

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Work Time Best Long Long Time Done

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

Sergio Aragones

Character Start Design Drawing You

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Environmental End More Refugees Up

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Kiefer Sutherland

Life Father Fishing People Amazing

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

City Plan New Chairman Haven Served

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