English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.
Tom Stoppard
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With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.
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If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
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To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
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My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.
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I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
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One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
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Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
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I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
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When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.
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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?'
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I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
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