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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.

~Tom Stoppard

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I take every possible side.

~Tom Stoppard

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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.

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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.

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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

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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.

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I'm a very boring person.

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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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