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" 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. "
Tom Stoppard
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" We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. "
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" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "
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Looking
" If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me. "
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" I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. "
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Seem
Taken
" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "
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Life Is Short
Short
Life
" 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. "
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Me
Coin
Mean
" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "
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Behave
Democracy
" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
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Jew
Poetry
Said
" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "
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Vibrant
Effort
Takes
" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "
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Simply
Way
Felt
" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "
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Means
Good
End
" From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. "
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Facts
Certainty
Truth
" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "
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How
Enough
Write
" The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. "
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Responsibility
Illusion
Power
" As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India. "
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Child
Path
Out
" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "
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Most
Know
Secrets
" The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. "
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Sense
Done
Common Sense
" Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex. "
Tom Stoppard
Human
Laugh
Like
" 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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Mind
Worry
Too Much
" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "
Tom Stoppard
How
You
Dialogue
" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "
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Everyone
Great
Theater
" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "
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False
Pretenses
Interviews
" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "
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Challenge
Play
Writing
" 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.' "
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Theatre
America
Love
" I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. "
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Direct
Act
Design
" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "
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Wait
Education
Go
" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "
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Watching
Lot
Things
" That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. "
Tom Stoppard
Society
Myself
Free
" I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. "
Tom Stoppard
Pop
Music
Like
" 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
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