#om

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #myself #sometimes #vaguely

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#entry #every #exit #somewhere

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#camera #crush #having #like #movie

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

#been #coin #i #interested #me

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#black #black comedy #comedy #errors #great

I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Stegger. "What's that about?" Ranger asked. "Mrs. Steeger is the Antichrist." "Damn," Ranger said. "I left my Antichrist gun at home." "Looks like you brought everything else." "Never know when you'll need some tear gas." "If we have to gas Mrs. Steeger, it"ll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#home

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#am #good #i #i am #i write

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#back #comic #enjoyed #far #how

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 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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom