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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

~Tom Stoppard

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

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The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

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You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

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Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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