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Tom Stoppard’s work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock ’n’ Roll, The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt. His radio plays include If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank, Albert’s Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon).
Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade’s End. Film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.
‘We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.’
‘Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. ’
‘When I was at school, on certain afternoons we all had to do what was called Labour - weeding, sweeping, sawing logs for the boiler-room, that kind of thing; but if you had a chit from Matron you were let off to spend the afternoon messing about in the Art Room. Labour or Art. And you’ve got a chit for life? (passionately) Where did you get it? What is an artist? For every thousand people there’s nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who’s the artist.’
‘A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.’
‘Pollard Well, what's it like, Jackson
Jackson Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.
Pollard Gosh.’
‘Girls who kiss don't know Latin.’
‘You think human nature is a beast which must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.’
‘But you live as if without history, as if you throw no shadow behind you.’
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