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" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "
Tom Stoppard
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" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "
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" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "
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" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "
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" I write out of my intellectual experience. "
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" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "
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Reading
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" Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. "
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" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "
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Better
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" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "
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Line
Just
Hand
" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "
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Public
Man
" We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. "
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Grain
Advice
Bucket
" I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured. "
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Over
Myself
Person
" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "
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Writing
Feel
I Am
" 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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How
You
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" I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. "
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I Think
Difficult
Think
" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "
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Vibrant
Effort
Takes
" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "
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Happiness
Life
Rights
" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "
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Terrible
Life
Odds
" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "
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False
Pretenses
Interviews
" I'm good at being funny. "
Tom Stoppard
Being
Good
Being Funny
" Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. "
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Mean
Leaving
Matter
" I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. "
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Very
Fortunate
Life
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Always
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Does
Matter
" In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays. "
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Writing
Years
" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "
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Stop
Read
Enjoy
" 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. "
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Believe
Power
" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "
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Feel
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