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Good Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you…
- I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none…
- I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms…
- Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
- For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write…
- Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
- A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge…
- It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration…
- Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
- If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the…
- What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.
- I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
- Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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