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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard quotes about people

English Playwright, Critic July 3, 1937

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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people! Tom Stoppard
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go..."
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. Tom Stoppard
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. Tom Stoppard
What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist. Tom Stoppard
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours. Tom Stoppard
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. 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
Tom Stoppard quote: "I've got no interest in educating or instructing people."
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. 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
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
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
Tom Stoppard quote: "People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the..."
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. Tom Stoppard
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. Tom Stoppard

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