Peter Shaffer Quotes

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.

Peter Shaffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeartAdviceYouKnowSaidRust

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

Jerry Lewis

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We're entertainers. We're theatrical.

Andy Biersack

EntertainersTheatrical

We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.

John Hillcoat

BestPeoplePressureYouWorstTalk

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Matthew Perry

LifeGreatFightDoingYouBad

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Steve Harvey

WomenProblemBarHighSetting

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.

Stanley Hauerwas

MistakeDeepThinkSomeoneYouHere

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

Robert A. Heinlein

WorryLongNeverTheorySupposed

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.

Mary Gaitskill

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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

Lu Yu

HeavenDewLikeLiquorSweetest

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Douglas Alexander

LiveVisionJusticeTogetherFight

I love the Fashion Fair Concealer Wheel. That's my little secret. It comes with three colors in it. What I like about it is that you could almost cover your whole face in it if you want because you can mix the colors to create the perfect shade that works with your skin.

Ciara

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Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

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