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We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard
People
Actors
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard
Advice
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
Media
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
Power
Illusion
Responsibility
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard
End
Tragedy
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard
Revolution
Suffering
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Tom Stoppard
Work
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
Life
Answers
Questions
Waiting
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard
Growing up
Maturity
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard
Life
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Tom Stoppard
Life
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard
Indifference
Man
Public