"If London is a watercolor, New York is…" — Peter Shaffer
"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."
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45 Quotes by Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer has 45 quotes on this site.
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You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not…
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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't...…
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What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
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The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in…
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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.
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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
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A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children…
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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's…
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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of…
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I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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