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" In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. "

Tom Stoppard

Sitting

Birthday

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" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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

" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "

" For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story. "

" I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!' "

" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. "

" If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? "

" Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish. "

" When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' "

" It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday. "

" Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. "

" I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading 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. "

" Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. "

" Facebook lets me be lazy the way a man in a stereotypical 1950s office can be lazy. Facebook is the digital equivalent of my secretary, or perhaps my wife, yelling at me not to forget to wish someone a happy birthday or to inform me I have a social engagement this evening. "

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" I burn with no causes. "

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Causes

Burn

" I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. "

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Sometimes

Miserable

" I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me. "

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Eye

People

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" A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. "

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

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Attention

Competition