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" Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. "
Tom Stoppard
Experience
Dance
Up
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" Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' "
Tom Stoppard
Questions
Good
Thought
" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "
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You
Watching
Someone
" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "
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Remember
Looking
" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "
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Better
Comedy
Black
" The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world. "
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Human
Being Human
World
" A free press needs to be a respected press. "
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Free
Free Press
" I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. "
Tom Stoppard
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Audience
Right
" I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything. "
Tom Stoppard
Anything
Say
Very
" Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. "
Tom Stoppard
Director
Good
Likes
" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "
Tom Stoppard
Writing
Speak
Believe
" Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen. "
Tom Stoppard
Good
Like
Soldier
" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "
Tom Stoppard
Happiness
Life
Rights
" 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. "
Tom Stoppard
Leave
Diary
Away
" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "
Tom Stoppard
Stones
Them
Beatles
" A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. "
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Writer
Really
Function
" I burn with no causes. "
Tom Stoppard
Causes
Burn
" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "
Tom Stoppard
I Believe
Society
Well
" You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. "
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Your
Earth
Write
" 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
Like
Desire
End
" I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education. "
Tom Stoppard
Want
Support
Humanities
" For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. "
Tom Stoppard
Child
Justice
Knowledge
" I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "
Tom Stoppard
Age
Think
Price
" I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. "
Tom Stoppard
World
Think
Respect
" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "
Tom Stoppard
Few
Father
Confused
" I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. "
Tom Stoppard
You
World
Want
" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "
Tom Stoppard
Trivial
Suffering
Shift
" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "
Tom Stoppard
Roads
Speed
Hour
" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "
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Having
Worth
Twice
" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "
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Newspapers
I See
Name
" You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. "
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Own
Go
Hope