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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
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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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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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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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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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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words 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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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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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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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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