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To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

~Tom Stoppard

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When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

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I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

~Tom Stoppard

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Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

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Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

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I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

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In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.

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I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

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What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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