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Tom Stoppard

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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.


— Tom Stoppard


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We're actors. We're the opposite of people.


— Tom Stoppard


#people

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.


— Tom Stoppard


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


— Tom Stoppard


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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.


— Tom Stoppard


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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.


— Tom Stoppard


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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.


— Tom Stoppard


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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.


— Tom Stoppard


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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.


— Tom Stoppard


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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.


— 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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