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Tom Stoppard Quotes

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I’m quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me Picture Quote #1

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn’t ever get to meet Picture Quote #1

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn’t care how thick or thin it was, and I didn’t actually care what it was about Picture Quote #1

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God’s crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can’t think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes Picture Quote #1

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they’d create a completely new kind of society if only people weren’t so blind, stupid and selfish Picture Quote #1

We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can’t give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They’re all blood, you see Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees Picture Quote #1

Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power Picture Quote #1

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you’re lucky if the sound of a police car doesn’t rip the envelope twice a night Picture Quote #1

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much Picture Quote #1

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based Picture Quote #1

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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever Picture Quote #1

He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about Picture Quote #1

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I’ve listened to a lot and whose concerts I’ve been to. I love the experience. I don’t dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live Picture Quote #1

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it’s not there Picture Quote #1

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The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you’ve done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life Picture Quote #1

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don’t know what death is, it is illogical to fear it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it’s as fundamental to all education Picture Quote #1

I’ve voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm Picture Quote #1

The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it’s a mystery Picture Quote #1

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I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don’t feel Czech Picture Quote #1

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I didn’t feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that’s not true Picture Quote #1

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I’ve always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes Picture Quote #1

The names for things don’t come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation Picture Quote #1

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I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I’m quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn’t ever get to meet. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn’t care how thick or thin it was, and I didn’t actually care what it was about. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God’s crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can’t think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they’d create a completely new kind of society if only people weren’t so blind, stupid and selfish. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can’t give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They’re all blood, you see. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you’re lucky if the sound of a police car doesn’t rip the envelope twice a night. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I’ve listened to a lot and whose concerts I’ve been to. I love the experience. I don’t dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it’s not there. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you’ve done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don’t know what death is, it is illogical to fear it. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can’t be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it’s as fundamental to all education. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I’ve voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it’s a mystery. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don’t feel Czech. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) 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 Quotes) I didn’t feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that’s not true. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I’ve always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes. (Tom Stoppard Quotes) The names for things don’t come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. (Tom Stoppard Quotes)

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