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Peter Shaffer Quotes

I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It was just something gently imposed.

Peter Shaffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Faith Parents Think Single Jewish

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

Matthew Macfadyen

Stress Feel Doing You Fall More

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

Tom Brokaw

Success Marriage Stars World Royalty

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

Rodney Atkins

Love Good Music Singing Guitar Way

Today the world is a big jungle.

Roberto Cavalli

Today World Jungle Big

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Mary Garden

King Writing Book Reading Long Out

It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

Mitski

You Want Over Somebody Like Very

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

Jared Polis

Good Good Things Bad Stop Things

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

Truth Truth Is Think Finding You Up

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Daymond John

Money Yourself Decisions You Never

I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

Christine Woods

Energy Feedback Know Anything Take

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Good Saying Stop Achieve Say Just

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

William Shatner

Sports Myself I Can Movies Hand