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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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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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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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I burn with no causes.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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