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" 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. "

Tom Stoppard

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" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

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Children

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" I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. "

" It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. "

" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

" A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. "

" 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. "

" I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them. "

Tom Stoppard

Clothes

Not Interested

" If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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

" In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

Tom Stoppard

Absolutely

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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. "

Tom Stoppard

Phone

Director

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

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

Tom Stoppard

Being

Event

" 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. "

" I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. "

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

" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

Tom Stoppard

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