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" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "
Tom Stoppard
Because
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" The way 'star' used to be reserved for a small number of people, and when the star category became so vast, they came up with 'superstar,' and then they came up with 'megastar.' "
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" I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. "
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" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "
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" I burn with no causes. "
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" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "
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Whole
" I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. "
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" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "
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" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "
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Happy
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" It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. "
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Got
" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "
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Certainty
Truth
" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "
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Having
Worth
Twice
" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "
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Ought
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" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "
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" I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. "
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Am
Good
Shown
" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
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Poetry
Said
" Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? "
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" My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' "
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Sometimes
Watch
God
" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "
Tom Stoppard
People
Know
Nice
" I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. "
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You
World
Want
" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "
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Newspapers
I See
Name
" I don't feel like a Londoner. "
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Like
Feel
" 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 write out of my intellectual experience. "
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Experience
Out
Write
" I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. "
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Back
Random
Voice
" 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. "
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Dialogue
Way
Write
" 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. "
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Think
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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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Falling In Love
Think
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" The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. "
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Worry
Too Much
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