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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 don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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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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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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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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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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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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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
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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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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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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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