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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
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I burn with no causes.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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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.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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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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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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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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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.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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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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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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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.
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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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