Tom Stoppard quotes - page 6

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. (Tom Stoppard)
I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read. View quote
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Death is the ultimate negative. View quote
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?... A short, blunt human pyramid...? View quote
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. View quote
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Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame. View quote
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. View quote
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. View quote
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. View quote
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. View quote
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. (Tom Stoppard)
It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. View quote
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. View quote
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I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. View quote
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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. View quote
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. View quote
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. View quote
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. View quote
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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. (Tom Stoppard)
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. View quote
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I burn with no causes. View quote
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. View quote
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I take every possible side. View quote
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