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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard quotes

English Playwright, Critic July 3, 1937

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Tom Stoppard quote: "I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of..."
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. Tom Stoppard
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is..."
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the..."
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right..."
(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the..."
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know! Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new..."
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is..."
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "It would have been nice to have had unicorns."
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
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. Tom Stoppard
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. Tom Stoppard
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
LADY CROOM: You have been reading too many novels by Mrs Radcliffe, that is my opinion. This is a garden for The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho -- CHATER: The Castle of Otranto, my lady, is by Horace Walpole. NOAKES: (Thrilled) Mr Walpole the gardener?! LADY CROOM: Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one? Tom Stoppard

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