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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
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education. Tom Stoppard
Education Humanities Other Something Support Idea Subjects Being Want Teaching Measured Whole Even Fundamental
I think journalism is important. Tom Stoppard
Important Think I Think Journalism
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. Tom Stoppard
Design Direct Act
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. Tom Stoppard
Life Better No Life Box Expect Than
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
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. Tom Stoppard
Happiness You Too Much Too Know Childhood After Much Last Chance
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. Tom Stoppard
Think Definition Precise
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
I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. Tom Stoppard
I Am Sometimes Miserable Am Anyone
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. Tom Stoppard
Love Woman People Simple Husband Young Married Married Woman About Entirely Simple Idea Price Anna Idea Feel Leaves Cavalry Falls Officer Quite After Much Who Pays Agony Novel Her
Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. Tom Stoppard
Hero He Because Reed Lou Reed
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Tom Stoppard
Worth Once Having Idea Twice
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard
Truth Only Facts Obtained Principles Probability Derived Certainty
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
Art Imagination Objects Gives Picnic Without Modern Craftsmanship Modern Art Us Skill Useful Many
I don't even know what my voice is to this day. Tom Stoppard
Day Voice Know Even
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny. Tom Stoppard
Funny You Jokes Word Somebody Lose Back Something Only Had Know French Sort Context Familiar Unexpected Substitution Which Translated Then Certain English Who Original
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. Tom Stoppard
Work Myself Me Think Analytical Way Critical Objectively Look Just Interest
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. Tom Stoppard
Myself Animal Think I Think Instead Intellectual Theater
I'm good at being funny. Tom Stoppard
Funny Good Being Being Funny
One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. Tom Stoppard
Own Think Other Other Countries Countries Like Likes Always
In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. Tom Stoppard
Politics Woman Eyes Thought Before Manners Everyone Everything Exactly Exactly What Seemed Had Dropping Along Period She Said Arrival Came Were Been Thatcher Esteem Low Then Really Jaws Who Popping Enjoyed
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. Tom Stoppard
Anger Anti-Semitism Tossing Casually Combined Chekhov His Off Very Comments Modern Deplorable Against Capable Letters
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. Tom Stoppard
Virginity Simply Abstract Ideal Longer Loses Text Version Being Staged Event
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
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
I don't draw on my inner life in my work. Tom Stoppard
Life Work Draw Inner Inner Life
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