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Me Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at…
- Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
- Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
- I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about…
- I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
- It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times…
- If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When…
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to…
- Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between…
- Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my…
- Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king."…
- The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to…
- I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.
- I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
- Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life…
- For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.
- I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter,…
- In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.
- Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale