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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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More quotes by Tom Stoppard
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
Tom Stoppard
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
Tom Stoppard
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
Tom Stoppard
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
Give us this day our daily mask.
Tom Stoppard
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom Stoppard
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard
I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
Tom Stoppard
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
Tom Stoppard