#thing

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#grateful #happen #hold #i #often

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#course #know #nothing #than #things

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#i #impels #me #something #study

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else. ↗

— Picabo Street

#else #healthy #healthy person #i #made

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#could #feel #how #i #i feel

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#beautiful #because #being #being in love #believe

And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave? ↗

— Trish Stratus

#doing #future #give #give me #i

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming. ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#been #casting #certain #couch #course