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My scripts are possibly too talkative.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Film Director
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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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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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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The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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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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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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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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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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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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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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