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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Tom Stoppard
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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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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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, I'm the writer.
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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.
Tom Stoppard
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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