#me

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

— Tom Stoppard

#decision #get #i #inside #me

I can't remember what my first script was. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #remember #script

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

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

— Tom Stoppard

#enjoy #enjoyment #i #interest #read

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

#because #being #ever #gave #get

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

#grateful #happen #hold #i #often

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#his #indifference #james #james joyce #joyce

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#end #good #means #tragedy #unhappily

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#i #impels #me #something #study

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

#between #collections #deal #dissolve #distinctions