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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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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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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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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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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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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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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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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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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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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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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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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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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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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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