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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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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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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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