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Peter Shaffer Quotes

English - Playwright | May 15, 1926 - June 6, 2016

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.

Children Time Best Purpose Think

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

Light Moment Black Comedy You Play

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

Story My Own First Own Detective

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.

Good Freedom Me American America

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.

Organization Believe Story Studying

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

Think Know Actor Being Fact I Think

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

Life My Life Born First Years Lived

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.

Me Strong You Never Extraordinary

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Race Tedious Tend

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

Childhood London Adolescence Spent

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.

Great Sun Me Moving Seeing Look

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.

Children Great Time War September

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