Peter Shaffer Quotes

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Peter Shaffer

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Wife

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Small
  • Living
  • Iron

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • You
  • Thought

• When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Success
  • You

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Up
  • Age

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Memory

• The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Know
  • Influence

• I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Me
  • Describe
  • Bother

• Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Children
  • Think
  • Understanding

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.

  

  Charlie Carver
  • Good

• I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Learn

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

  

  Peter Shaffer