English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
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I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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