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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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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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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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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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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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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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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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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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