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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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More quotes by Tom Stoppard
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom Stoppard
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom Stoppard
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Tom Stoppard
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
Tom Stoppard
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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 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.
Tom Stoppard
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
Tom Stoppard
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
Tom Stoppard
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Tom Stoppard
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
