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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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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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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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