"If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play."

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Source : "Pacing It" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

Tom Stoppard

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“Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.”
“I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.”
“Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
“If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.”
“I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're malevolent or evil - we're marvelous, fantastic, tool-bearing beings and capable of so much - but there are so many of us, and we don't tend to take responsibility for what we do.”
“Music is so visual now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.”
“The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?”

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