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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
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