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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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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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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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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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Give us this day our daily mask.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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I burn with no causes.
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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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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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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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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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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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.
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