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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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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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I'm attracted to the past.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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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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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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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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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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