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" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "
Tom Stoppard
Anywhere
Rather
Place
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" 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. "
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Pressure
Purpose
Say
" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "
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Home
School
End
" 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. "
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Say
Think
Romantic
" I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. "
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Myself
Why
Trying
" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "
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Political
Party
Enthusiasm
" In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' "
Tom Stoppard
Theatre
America
Love
" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "
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Likes
Own
Think
" I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong. "
Tom Stoppard
Life
Going
Writing
" You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. "
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Work
Art
Know
" I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing. "
Tom Stoppard
Like
Desire
End
" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "
Tom Stoppard
Boring
Failing
Seem
" 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. "
Tom Stoppard
Well
You
Much
" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "
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Questions
Life
Whole
" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "
Tom Stoppard
Falling In Love
Think
Falling
" 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
Deep
Night
New York
" 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. "
Tom Stoppard
Dialogue
Way
Write
" When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. "
Tom Stoppard
Try
World
See
" With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material. "
Tom Stoppard
Reading
Years
Material
" My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. "
Tom Stoppard
Off
Hot
Life
" For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. "
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Language
Reflection
Reputation
" I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. "
Tom Stoppard
Leave
Diary
Away
" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "
Tom Stoppard
Father
Always
Knew
" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "
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Know
You
Happiness
" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "
Tom Stoppard
How
Enough
Write
" 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
Experience
Dance
Up
" To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him. "
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End
Love
Women
" A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. "
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Wait
Others
Healthy
" 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
Right
Believe
Power
" 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. "
Tom Stoppard
Mean
Leaving
Matter
" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "
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Government
Democracy
Counting