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Tom Stoppard Quotes

English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Love Love Is Deep Think Self Person

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

Time People Present Without Us Come

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

Think Better Play Why Write Here

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.

Life Day Writing Start Rest Think

I think journalism is important.

Think Journalism Important I Think

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Time Writing Possibilities You New

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Age Looking New Digital Large Many

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Time Theatre Become Without Get

Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.

Me Because Reviews Read Interested

It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.

People Me You Done Want Write

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

Loved Better Enough You Know Say

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

People Road Down Play Newspaper Big

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