Firsts Quote by Tom Stoppard

“I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.”

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I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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