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Thinking Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
- I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
- 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…
- Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child
- People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
- I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
- 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…
- A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone…
- I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms…
- I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
- I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
- When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
- Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's…
- 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…
- For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write…
- Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well,…
- Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
- I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge…
- When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my…
- Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You…
- You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
- Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between…
- It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into…
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