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Peter Shaffer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story My Own First Own Detective

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

Future Theatre Comedy Want Explore

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

Work Job Believe Think You Find

The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?

You Down Price Nothing What If Need

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

Steve Jurvetson

You Ask Successful Get Like Sounds

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

Husband Thanksgiving Meal Big Fan

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Truth People Story Think Human Got

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

Women Children Health Medical World

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Good Humor Think Sense Of Humor

I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'

Friend Great Day School Me Thought

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

Work Me Help Will Task Simplify

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

Asif Ali Zardari

Men Wife Man Political Find Accept

Bill Belichick makes it real easy for you to root against the Patriots.

Easy You Real Patriots Against Root

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