Tom Stoppard
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by Tom Stoppard:
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“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard
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“It’s not the voting that’s democracy it’s the counting.” -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 was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure…
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“I write out of my intellectual experience.” -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 don’t act, I don’t direct, I don’t design.” -Tom Stoppard
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“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.” -Tom Stoppard
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.” -Tom Stoppard
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“A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard
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“You can’t but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it’s a narrative art form.” -Tom Stoppard
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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard
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“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”