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I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

~Tom Stoppard

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My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

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When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.

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I always loved rock 'n' roll.

~Tom Stoppard

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When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

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If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

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One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

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The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

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Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

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It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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