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" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "
Tom Stoppard
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" I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong. "
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" 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.' "
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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. "
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" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "
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" I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. "
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" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "
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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. "
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" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "
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" I'm a very boring person. "
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" In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. "
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Politics
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" The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. "
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Means
Good
End
" I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. "
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Few
Father
Confused
" 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. "
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Way
Safety
" 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. "
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Good
Bad
Believe
" The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. "
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Teaching
Age
Word
" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "
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Right
Believe
Power
" 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. "
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Now
World
Free
" I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. "
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Stones
Them
Beatles
" Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. "
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Price
Maturity
Pay
" 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. "
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Writing
Speak
Believe
" We're actors. We're the opposite of people. "
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People
Opposite
" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "
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Line
Just
Hand
" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "
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Least
England
" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "
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You
Enough
Know
" I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. "
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Way
Felt
" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "
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Universe
Rooms
Moral
" I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. "
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Take
Little
Offended
" 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. "
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" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "
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" I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. "
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