27 quotes by Tom Stoppard

“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” — Tom Stoppard

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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.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.” — Tom Stoppard

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“My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'” — 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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“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” — 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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“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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“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.” — 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 out of my intellectual experience.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — 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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“It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.” — 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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“Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.” — Tom Stoppard

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“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.” — Tom Stoppard

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“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.” — Tom Stoppard

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“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.” — 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 oxygen.” — Tom Stoppard

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