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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. (Tom Stoppard)
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. View quote
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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. View quote
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I'm a very boring person. View quote
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. View quote
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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. View quote
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. View quote
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. View quote
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I'm attracted to the past. View quote
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I write out of my intellectual experience. View quote
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I feel overestimated. (Tom Stoppard)
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. View quote
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I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. View quote
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I can't remember what my first script was. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. View quote
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. View quote
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. View quote
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. View quote
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. (Tom Stoppard)
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. View quote
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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. View quote
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