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Tom Stoppard

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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.


— Tom Stoppard


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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.


— Tom Stoppard


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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.


— Tom Stoppard


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I write out of my intellectual experience.


— Tom Stoppard


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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.


— Tom Stoppard


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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.


— Tom Stoppard


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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.


— Tom Stoppard


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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.


— Tom Stoppard


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I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.


— Tom Stoppard


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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.


— Tom Stoppard


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"I fairly often find I'm with people who forget I don't quite belong in the world we're in" he says. In 2008 Stoppard was voted the number 76 on the Time 100 Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. " He acknowledges that he started off "as a language nerd" primarily enjoying linguistic and ideological playfulness feeling early in his career that journalism was far better suited for presaging political change than playwriting.

Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright knighted in 1997. Themes of human rights censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.

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