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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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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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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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