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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#gamble #life #life is a #odds #take

No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#man #wise #wise man #wished #younger

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

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 write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#dialogue #i #i write #only #plays

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#film #medium #now #over #still

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art form #audience #because #better #capture

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million. ↗

— Peter Stormare

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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#appearance #case #conferences #could #experience

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it. ↗

— Anthony Storr

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