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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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