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Peter Shaffer Quotes
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. Its the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I began to read everything I could about Mozart, who Ive always felt, I suppose, to be the greatest of all composers. I still think so. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place hes writing about. I think, you just cant move them about, you know. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I was an accomplice in my own frustration. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Its an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesnt... not only bore me, thats too strong a word. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
My first stage play was a play about a family, an unhappy family, divided against itself, and it was originally called Retreats. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. Thats not love, its just rubbish. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
You cant always let people do their own thing. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. - Peter Shaffer Quotes
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