Peter Shaffer Quotes

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.

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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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Jimmy Buffett

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If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Jim Parsons

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America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

Jo Ann Emerson

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I think that there should be an assault weapons ban.

Jennifer Palmieri

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I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

John Eccles

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What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

Michael Bay

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The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

Tom Hardy

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I feel like I own the stage.

Ritchie Blackmore

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Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Robin Day

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I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Michael Patrick King

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The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

Austan Goolsbee

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