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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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