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I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

~Tom Stoppard

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I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.

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You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.

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I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

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I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

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I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.

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People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

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Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

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Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

~Tom Stoppard

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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