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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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GreatSunMeMovingSeeingLook

I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

LifeThinkMy LifePlayWhyCat

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

Andrew Nikiforuk

CanadaWaySameFurTradeChanged

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Amy Sedaris

PeopleFaceSomethingWouldYour

The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.

Tua Tagovailoa

PeopleHawaiiNiceAlabamaWould

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

Shonda Rhimes

TimeMyselfThinkThoughtAnything

I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she's disqualified herself from Commander-in-Chief by her cavalier attitude towards our nation's secrecy laws.

Tom Cotton

AttitudeThinkYouI CanSheNation

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Mike Greenberg

AdmireContemporaryMostAuthors

Pink is the navy blue of India.

Diana Vreeland

BluePinkIndiaNavy

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

Brittany Curran

ChildhoodWorldDreamTrueAsking

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

FunnyLoveLiveGuyWhereHe

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

Scott Turow

LovePeopleMeLawBehaveCriminal

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Timothy Geithner

MistakeChoiceBetweenEasierWhich

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