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" If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. "

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" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "

Tom Stoppard

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" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "

" It is better to be quotable than to be honest. "

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

" All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process. "

" Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. "

" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "

Tom Stoppard

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

" Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. "

" 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. "

" It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. "

" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "

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

Tom Stoppard

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" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "

" 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything. "

" 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. "

" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "

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

" 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. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "

" 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. "

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

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