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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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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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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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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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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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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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