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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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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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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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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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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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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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