#si

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#person #responsibilities #shoulder #them #who

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#brought #certainty #desired #joy #may

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#consider #i #like #music #pop

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

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

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

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

— Tom Stoppard

#decision #get #i #inside #me

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#design #direct #i

I take every possible side. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #possible #side #take