Tom Stoppard Quotes

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Involved, Revival

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard

Power, East, Papers

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard

Life, State, Event

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard

Decision, Inside

I burn with no causes.
Tom Stoppard

I can't remember what my first script was.
Tom Stoppard

Remember, Script

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Cannot, Write

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard

Design, Act, Direct

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
Tom Stoppard

Definition, Precise

I feel overestimated.
Tom Stoppard

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
Tom Stoppard

Enjoy, Read, Stop

I take every possible side.
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

Future, Sacrifice, Worth

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Tom Stoppard

Education, Wait, University

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

Meet, Gave, Reporter

I write out of my intellectual experience.
Tom Stoppard

Experience, Write

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
Tom Stoppard

Long, Writing, Often

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Tom Stoppard

Person, Same, Quite

I'm a very boring person.
Tom Stoppard

I'm attracted to the past.
Tom Stoppard

Past, Attracted

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
Tom Stoppard

Against, Pathetic, Stands

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

Waiting, Happen, Play

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard

Interest, Educating

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
Tom Stoppard

True, Enough, Said

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tom Stoppard

Nothing, Useless

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3, 1937

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