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" 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

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" I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. "

Tom Stoppard

Coin

Mean

" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer. "

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" I'm a very boring person. "

" 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

Desire

End

" The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. "

" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "

" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "

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" I'm attracted to the past. "

Tom Stoppard

Past

Attracted

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. "

" I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. "

" My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. "

" Every exit is an entry somewhere else. "

" I don't feel like a Londoner. "

Tom Stoppard

Feel

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

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

Tom Stoppard

Phone

Director

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" 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. "

" 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. "