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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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Your opinions are your symptoms.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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