English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
Tom Stoppard
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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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I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
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You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
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I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
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People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.
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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
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I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.
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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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'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.
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'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
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