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Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.


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THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp...
CLARENCE THOMAS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER