Peter Shaffer Quotes

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.

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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Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Ann Coulter

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'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

Michael J. Anderson

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I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

John Sulston

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I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.

Sterling Beaumon

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

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I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

Ronny Chieng

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Our interest in 'Rolling Stone' is driven by its people, its cultural significance, and the globally recognized brand that has no peer in its areas of influence.

Jay Penske

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We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.

Jason Mitchell

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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

Chloe Sevigny

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Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Chloe Sevigny

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'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

Colin Trevorrow

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