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Out Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
- I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of…
- I write out of my intellectual experience.
- I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none…
- When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
- I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
- the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a…
- If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When…
- 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…
- Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.…
- As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then…
- There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.
- I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
- After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
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