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" I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. "

Tom Stoppard

Mathematics

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Queen

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" Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem. "

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" My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. "

" In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. "

" You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. "

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" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "

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" If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. "

" Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. "

" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "

" I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong. "

" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "

" Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. "

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Being

Event

" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "

" The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. "

" James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. "

" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. "

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" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "

" I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. "

" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "

" I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. "

" I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. "

" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "

" I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. "

" I don't feel like a Londoner. "

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