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When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. Tom Stoppard
Day World Free Half Not Talking Out Inside Something Ten Could Head Days Talking Left Five Get Just Being Anyone Hold Younger Fortnight Useful Now Need
Corporeal death is not the whole story. Tom Stoppard
Death Story Whole
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. Tom Stoppard
Think Definition Precise
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. Tom Stoppard
Political Election Degree Enthusiasm Party Every Never Voted Always Political Party Same Any
I really just like to be at a desk. Tom Stoppard
Like Just Really Desk
There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. Tom Stoppard
Difficult Too Say Find Many Things
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. Tom Stoppard
Age Digital Looking Digital Age Despite New Venues Very Spaces Them Large Many Large Number Number Plays
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. Tom Stoppard
People Wonderful Example Big Down Saw Gig Would Some Brothers Road Between For Example Tickets Hall Years Up Wonderful People Get Reporter Which Newspaper Down The Road Whoever Play Bristol
When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams. Tom Stoppard
Dreams Having Idea Beyond Just Anywhere Play
You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. Tom Stoppard
You Own Otherwise Earth Could Write How Them Your Plays
It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. Tom Stoppard
Takes Lot Effort Vibrant
I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. Tom Stoppard
Myself Sometimes Embarrassed Vaguely
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. 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
Needs You Business World Sometimes Nice Kicking About Something Directors Writer He Feel Make Sure Around Friend Up Friends Ends While Script Show Nice Things Things Filmmaking
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. Tom Stoppard
Happy Fact Schoolboy Very Being Loved Turned English
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. Tom Stoppard
Me Writing I Am Year Everybody Feel Know Sort Making Am Up Much Twice Plays
I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. Tom Stoppard
Way Simply Felt Wanted Theater
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. Tom Stoppard
You Young Think Medium Television Would Would-Be Writers Over Attracts Still Which Theater Young Writers Film Now
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. Tom Stoppard
Happy Writing Matter Seems Something Puritanical Almost Leaving Subject Subject Matter Very Frivolous Quite Mean Incapable Even
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. Tom Stoppard
Writer Movie Movie Set Much Really Function Set
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. Tom Stoppard
Writing Playwright Involved Gets Movies Who Play
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. Tom Stoppard
Good Director Somebody Likes Them Who Good Director Plays
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. Tom Stoppard
Good Sometimes Good Ideas Directors Had Simply Wished Ideas Rewriting Staging
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp. Tom Stoppard
Perhaps Obviously Got Quite Interesting Interesting Things Hard Grasp Play Things
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. Tom Stoppard
Time Theatre Become Classical Period Without Texts Greek Get Originated By The Time
'Shakespeare in Love' was a particularly happy film. Tom Stoppard
Love Happy Shakespeare Particularly Film
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Tom Stoppard
Worth Once Having Idea Twice
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