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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.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Tom Stoppard
Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Tom Stoppard
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom Stoppard
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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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
...Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
Tom Stoppard
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
Tom Stoppard
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Tom Stoppard
