Tom Stoppard Quotes - Famous Quotes by Tom Stoppard
Born: 1937-07-03
Died: 0000-00-00
Tom Stoppard Biography
Actors are the opposite of people.
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
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Every exit is an entry somewhere.
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For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
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