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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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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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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
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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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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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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.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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