English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.
Tom Stoppard
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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
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When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.
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The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
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If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
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I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
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It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
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I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.
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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
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I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.
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