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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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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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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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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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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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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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...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?
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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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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