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Tom Stoppard Quotes

English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

Me Random Voice Back Find Three

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Art Trust Values My Own Own Critic

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Funny Unexpected You Lose Back Know

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

I Am Sometimes Miserable Am Anyone

Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.

Enough Remember Write Something How

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Control Play Sometimes Events Over

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Myself Animal Think Intellectual

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Romantic Me Think Say Inside Give

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

Work Myself Me Think Look Way

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

Character Woman Man I Am Play Write

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

Work Myself People Writing Theatre

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

I Can Watching Without Things About

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