My scripts are possibly too talkative. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Tom Stoppard obstacles disaster theatre There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it. Tom Stoppard calendars moments atheist Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble. Tom Stoppard glasses writing running Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art. Tom Stoppard skills giving art Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops. Tom Stoppard noses running mean I take every possible side. Tom Stoppard sides Save the gerund and screw the whale. Tom Stoppard whales editing writing War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. Tom Stoppard hero love war can only write about what bites you. Tom Stoppard bites writing In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women. Tom Stoppard rich england men I feel overestimated. Tom Stoppard feels Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. Tom Stoppard decision business want Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift. Tom Stoppard balance weight world There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with. Tom Stoppard champagne radical men I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. Tom Stoppard design direct Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar. Tom Stoppard calendars tricks suicide It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. Tom Stoppard effort The hard part is getting to the top of page 1. Tom Stoppard hard crafts pages If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could. Tom Stoppard future clever writing Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos. Tom Stoppard hope expectations order
