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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE, FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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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.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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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.
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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.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
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