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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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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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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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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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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
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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.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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