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Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
Born: Jul 3, 1937
Life Me People Think Writing You
Related authors: Aphra Behn Christopher Marlowe Harold Pinter John Ciardi John Heywood Thomas Dekker Thomas Holcroft William Shakespeare
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard
Attitude Wait Healthy Others Carrier Catch Contagious
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard
Motivational Somewhere Every Else Somewhere Else Entry Exit
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Tom Stoppard
Life Family Me You Sense Neighbour Kin Trick Would Give Take Generosity Between Beyond Obviously Make Children Them Your Plate Village Extended Extended Family Apply Last
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard
Maturity Pay High High Price Price Up Growing Growing Up
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. Tom Stoppard
Pressure Distract Say Kind Entertain Divert Purpose Journalism Institution Perhaps Altered Educate Commercial Being Different Inform Which Might Different Kind Notion Whole Even Whose Fundamental Elevate
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. Tom Stoppard
Honesty Honesty Is Seldom Often
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. Tom Stoppard
Mathematics Queen I Am Others Considered Claimed Some Because Sciences Am Led Mathematician Centuries Certainties Certainty Grounded Aware Fundamental Axiom
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. Tom Stoppard
Myself Hopeless Looking See How Trying Working Why Things
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. Tom Stoppard
Life Light Matter Single Society Put Idea Single Life Singularity Very Just Which Each Jeopardy
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Tom Stoppard
Theatre Imminent Road Obstacles Disaster Insurmountable Series
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. Tom Stoppard
Future Good You Generation Lie Paradise Leader Cowardice Down Enough Adolescence Brute Brute Force Sacrifices Wrong Force Felt Huge Wheels Ask Sentimental Your Notion Right
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Tom Stoppard
Thought Terrible End Going Mean Eternity
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' Tom Stoppard
Love Saying Theatre Free Playwrights Back Email Visit Would Support Like Announcing Wrote Said Got Were Existence Yes America Wanted Us Asked England
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. Tom Stoppard
Illusion Responsibility Power Subscribe Able Throughout Never House Without Lords Been Which Ages Prerogative
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. Tom Stoppard
Life You Life Is A Odds Bet Take Terrible Gamble
If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me. Tom Stoppard
Me Matter Think Meet I Think I See See He Him Terrifying How How Many Times Still Times Hit Frightened Role Going Really Many Actor Socially
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. Tom Stoppard
Love You Out Find About Seems Directors Investigating Because Chekhov His Text End Working Actor Plays
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. Tom Stoppard
History Sense Allowed Part Idea Clearly Done Common Anybody Being Common Sense Being Done Might Use Now Harm
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. Tom Stoppard
Birthday Me Half Party Before Birthday Party Harold Student Attended Began Author Sitting Front Just Realised Victoria January Rooms Production Bristol Plays
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. Tom Stoppard
Life Every Slightly Those 1940s Frankly Admired More Write Written Wished Like Sharpness Economy Always Dialogue Line Than Artificial Where Scripts Film
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. Tom Stoppard
Noise Respond Well Nationalistic Which Olympic
My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. Tom Stoppard
Happy Water Lonely Faces Never Perfectly Sitting Desk
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. Tom Stoppard
You Own Playwright Waterfront Those Able About Area Without Cover Lot Any Being Hold Expert Against Your Illusions
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard
Change World Believe Change The World Aim Immediate Weapon More Journalism Still Short-Term Your
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. Tom Stoppard
Writer Movie Movie Set Much Really Function Set
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. Tom Stoppard
Art You Walk Painting Around Understand Wall Modern Modern Art Sculpture Hard
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