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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
— Tom Stoppard
Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.
— Tom Stoppard
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
— Tom Stoppard
I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
— Tom Stoppard
Save the gerund and screw the whale.
— Tom Stoppard
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
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? — Tom Stoppard
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.
— Tom Stoppard
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
— Tom Stoppard
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
— Tom Stoppard
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
— Tom Stoppard
There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.
— Tom Stoppard
The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
— Tom Stoppard
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
— Tom Stoppard
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I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm attracted to the past.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm good at being funny.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't feel like a Londoner.
— Tom Stoppard
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
— Tom Stoppard
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'
— Tom Stoppard
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
— Tom Stoppard
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
— Tom Stoppard
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
— Tom Stoppard
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.
— Tom Stoppard
We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
— Tom Stoppard
Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
— Tom Stoppard
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
— Tom Stoppard
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
— Tom Stoppard
Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.
— Tom Stoppard
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.
— Tom Stoppard
Your opinions are your symptoms.
— Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
— Tom Stoppard
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
— Tom Stoppard
Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
— Tom Stoppard
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
— Tom Stoppard
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
— Tom Stoppard
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
— Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays.
— Terry Teachout
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
— Tom Stoppard
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
— Tom Stoppard
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
— Tom Stoppard
Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.
— Tom Stoppard
Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
— Tom Stoppard
(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.
— Tom Stoppard
I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.
— Tom Stoppard
Well, we'll know better next time.
— Tom Stoppard
Can't you function unless you're losing?
— Tom Stoppard
I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
— Tom Stoppard
Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
— Tom Stoppard
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
— Tom Stoppard
