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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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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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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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If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
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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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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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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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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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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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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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