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Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
- I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
- I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
- I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
- 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.
- I write out of my intellectual experience.
- It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
- It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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