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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 3, 1937

Topics

Good Ideas Sometimes Good Ideas Had

I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

Relationship Time Day People Amazing

I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

Childhood Chaos Rest Enough Early

I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved to New Zealand, so I only lived there from when I was 12 to 18.

Year Born New Australia Lived Only

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

Life Education Picture My Life You

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

People Me World You Some People

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

School Smart Me Saying Thought Way

I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from.

Respect Fight People Career Play

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Wit Weapon Folly His Foe

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Technology Great Joy Society

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Good Mind World Consequences Done

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Tim Berners-Lee

Power People Growing Up Growing Now

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Someone Person Want Kind Get Role

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