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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Film Director
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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I burn with no causes.
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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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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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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 House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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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.
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