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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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Your opinions are your symptoms.
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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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I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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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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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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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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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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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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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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