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Peter Shaffer Quotes

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Eyes Better See Us Ears Function

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I Can Actor Way Always Role Sure

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Science Test Arts Going Interested

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

Me Week You Play Said Want

Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.

Live Comedy Complicated Become Venue

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

Good Home Past People You Know

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

World Language American Same Israel

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Stephen Hawking

Good Morning Never Going Afternoon

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Science Brain Universe Unique She

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Words Pain Check Still Your Cure

It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

Gratitude Experience Grateful Deep

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Difficult Scary Nasty Get Disease

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

Life Think You Kind Anything Answer

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