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“The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.”

Quote by Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard is a renowned British playwright, born on July 3, 1937. His works are known for their witty dialogue and complex structure, with notable plays including 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' and 'The Real Thing'. Stoppard has received multiple Tony Awards and Olivier Awards for his contributions to theatre. more

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“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 not.”

Thinking Stills Would Be Film Young Television Theater Mediums Young Writers

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“I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.”

Way Writing Play Position Dialogue Respectable Contradicting Refutation Rebuttal Writing Dialogue

Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

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“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.”

People Ifs Enough Age Funny Enjoy Possibility Gains Aging Golden Associates Old People Elders Continuity Ghetto Older People Full Life Continuity Of Life

Author: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.”

Long I Can Age Remember Six Jokes Seven Comic Enjoyed Birthday Recalls 60th Birthday Pun

Author: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.”

People Mean Sides Opinion Coins

Author: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.”

People Thinking Way Kind Real Theater Behave Tension Contradiction

Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

“I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.”

Trying Play Might Worry Paper Diaries Archives

Author: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.”

People Knows Writing Felt Numbers Satisfaction Frustration Small Numbers

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard