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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, I'm the writer.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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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 write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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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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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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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.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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