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" 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. "

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" If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. "

Tom Stoppard

Tomorrow

Words

Attitude

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

" 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. "

" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "

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

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. "

" If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. "

" One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. "

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

" I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays. "

Tom Stoppard

Attention

Competition

" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. "

" 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.' "

" The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. "

" Good things, when short, are twice as good. "

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

Tom Stoppard

Decision

Get

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

" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "

" I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. "

" 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 always loved rock 'n' roll. "

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "

" You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. "

" When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. "

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

" 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. "

" I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. "