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Peter Shaffer Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Mar 2021

Peter Shaffer Topics

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

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You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

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You can't always let people do their own thing.

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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.

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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

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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.

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Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

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My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

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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.

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

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I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

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I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

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I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

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I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

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