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He held him and kicked him until he cried like a chi... CONN IGGULDEN If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions a... BEL POWLEY Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. BRENDA UELAND Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so ... JOHN MARK GREEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which i... MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are yo... LAUREN MYRACLE I thought when we got into overtime that this was our game. I knew our kids were going to come alive... 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This means: everything which actually is, every ... MARTIN HEIDEGGER When I first joined, everyone made me feel so comfortable right from the start. It was almost like b... CAROL OWENS I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job -... EMILIA FOX I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it sup... JENNY HAN Our effort was pretty good in humid conditions, which makes the legs a little dead. So our times wer... BRIAN LOWERY One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and... ROBIN INCE Now, let's never talk about you being related to her again. Because I'm technically still engaged to... MARISSA MEYER Emotion choked her. “Since meeting you you’ve made me feel a lot of things. But not guilt. Not e... LORI FOSTER Everyone is at almost lifetime best (times). 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TOM STOPPARD As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an ex... TOM STOPPARD I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write o... TOM STOPPARD When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, bu... TOM STOPPARD I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have... TOM STOPPARD My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally ... TOM STOPPARD Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. TOM STOPPARD There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man... TOM STOPPARD Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual... TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We... TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista... TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ... TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro... TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin... TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that... TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. TOM STOPPARD You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the ... TOM STOPPARD Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by on... TOM STOPPARD Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of ag... TOM STOPPARD As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it... TOM STOPPARD All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and... TOM STOPPARD We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. ... TOM STOPPARD