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I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.
— Tom Stoppard
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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
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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.
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Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
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