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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. Tom Stoppard

Matters Pay Defense Other State Perceived Idea Longer Institution Looks Limited Revenue Exists Very Any After Which Turned Us Realm Should Turtle Now Serve Prescribed Things Raising

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. Tom Stoppard

Events Sometimes Control No Control Over Impression Get Sequence Play

I don't draw on my inner life in my work. Tom Stoppard

Life Work Draw Inner Inner Life

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. Tom Stoppard

Intimate Secrets Share Know Most Want

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. Tom Stoppard

Path Out India Child Unfortunately Again Japanese Then

I think journalism is important. Tom Stoppard

Important Think I Think Journalism

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. Tom Stoppard

Beatles Never Liking Up Stones Stopped Loved Them Turned Really

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. Tom Stoppard

Hero He Because Reed Lou Reed

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. Tom Stoppard

Music You Writing Pulse Kind Rather Write Head Drum Making Than Psychological Process Rhythm Certain Your Whole

To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65? Tom Stoppard

Matter Does Being Appalling

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. Tom Stoppard

I Am Sometimes Miserable Am Anyone

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. Tom Stoppard

Life My Life Pursuits Hot Off

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. Tom Stoppard

Noise Respond Well Nationalistic Which Olympic

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. Tom Stoppard

You People Nice Think Know Very

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. Tom Stoppard

Life Better No Life Box Expect Than

I like the notion of theater as recreational. Tom Stoppard

Recreational Like Theater Notion

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' Tom Stoppard

God Sometimes Think Too I Think Possibly Scene Written Talkative Occasionally Sake Up Oh Scripts Shut Shut Up Watch

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' Tom Stoppard

Good Me Writing Thought Understanding Other Philosophical Philosophy Kind Rapidly About More Only True Since Occupied Questions Than Any Quite Being Them Really Certainly Found Early Started Two

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely. Tom Stoppard

Envy Long Falling Person Happen Prematurely

I don't do interviews under false pretenses. Tom Stoppard

Interviews Pretenses False

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. Tom Stoppard

It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before. Tom Stoppard

Me You People Before Ways Recommend About Case Something Write Written Because Very Done Going Common Want Really

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