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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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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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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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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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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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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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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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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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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, I'm the writer.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
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