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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course Picture Quote #1

They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem Picture Quote #1

Player: Relax. Respond. That’s what people do. You can’t go through life question your sitution at every turn Picture Quote #1

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? Picture Quote #1

It’s where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness, it’s what’s left of God’s purpose when you take away God Picture Quote #1

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life Picture Quote #1

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GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one’s nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops Picture Quote #1

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond Picture Quote #1

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that’s the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going Picture Quote #1

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line Picture Quote #1

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I smoke too much whether it’s going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line Picture Quote #1

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid Picture Quote #1

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it’s the cage that makes the animal bad Picture Quote #1

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism Picture Quote #1

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I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn’t trust my own subjective responses Picture Quote #1

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial Picture Quote #1

The whole thing about writing a play is that it’s all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It’s a stream of information, but you’ve got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe there is something called ‘film’ and something called ‘theater,’ and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them Picture Quote #1

I proudly tell people, ‘I have no computer,’ so as not to be ashamed of having no computer Picture Quote #1

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong Picture Quote #1

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The Importance of Being Earnest’ is important, but it says nothing about anything Picture Quote #1

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now Picture Quote #1

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it’s all quite self-interested: You can protect things Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn’t really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy’s only really about two questions: ‘What is true?’ and ‘What is good?’ Picture Quote #1

If you don’t know what is being said, the rest of the actor’s work is wasted Picture Quote #1

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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course (Tom Stoppard Quotes) They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Player: Relax. Respond. That’s what people do. You can’t go through life question your sitution at every turn (Tom Stoppard Quotes) When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd? (Tom Stoppard Quotes) It’s where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness, it’s what’s left of God’s purpose when you take away God (Tom Stoppard Quotes) If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life (Tom Stoppard Quotes) GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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 (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one’s nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that’s the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I smoke too much whether it’s going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it’s the cage that makes the animal bad. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn’t trust my own subjective responses. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The whole thing about writing a play is that it’s all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It’s a stream of information, but you’ve got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I don’t believe there is something called ‘film’ and something called ‘theater,’ and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I proudly tell people, ‘I have no computer,’ so as not to be ashamed of having no computer (Tom Stoppard Quotes) It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The Importance of Being Earnest’ is important, but it says nothing about anything (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it’s all quite self-interested: You can protect things. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn’t really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy’s only really about two questions: ‘What is true?’ and ‘What is good?’ (Tom Stoppard Quotes) If you don’t know what is being said, the rest of the actor’s work is wasted (Tom Stoppard Quotes)

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