Peter Shaffer Quotes

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.

Peter Shaffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 15, 1926 - June 6, 2016

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We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.

Jim McKelvey

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I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

Joe Manganiello

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'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

Joanna Going

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The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Joel Osteen

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I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

John Caudwell

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I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.

John Caudwell

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I am half Cuban American.

Mel Rodriguez

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When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.

Jeanine Pirro

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Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

Michael Beck

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Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

Steven Van Zandt

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I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Milton Bradley

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It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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