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Pirates could happen to anyone.
Tom Stoppard -
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
Tom Stoppard
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
Tom Stoppard -
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
Tom Stoppard -
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
Tom Stoppard -
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard -
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 -
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
Tom Stoppard
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard -
A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
Tom Stoppard -
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
Tom Stoppard -
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 -
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard -
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard