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    Tom Stoppard

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    I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #i #little #offended #pathetic #stands

    I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #grateful #happen #hold #i #often

    I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #got #i #interest #people

    If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #enough #know #really #said #things

    It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #course #know #nothing #than #things

    It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #honest #than #to be honest

    It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #author #back #broadway #different #every

    It's better to be quotable than to be honest. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #honest #than #to be honest

    James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #his #indifference #james #james joyce #joyce

    Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #box #expect #i #life #than






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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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