"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence,……" — Peter Shaffer
"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."
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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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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
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