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" One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. "

Tom Stoppard

Senses

Something

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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. "

" I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. "

" You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. "

" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "

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

" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "

" I don't even know what my voice is to this day. "

" It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line. "

" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "

" Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. "

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

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Being

Event

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "

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

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" I can't remember what my first script was. "

" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "

" Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. "

" 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. "

" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "

" I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. "

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Good

Shown

" Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. "

" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "

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Wait

Education