Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Quote by Tom Stoppard

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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from...

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's...

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake,...

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a...

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a...

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare...

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare...

'Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happining.

'Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happining.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature...

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature...

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the...

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the...

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe...

We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe...

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box