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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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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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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 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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