Peter Shaffer's Profile
Brief about Peter Shaffer: By info that we know Peter Shaffer was born at 1926-05-15. And also Peter Shaffer is English Playwright.
Some Peter Shaffer's quotes. Goto "Peter Shaffer's quotation" section for more.I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
Tags: AccompliceEverything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
Tags: Beauties, Life, TimePassion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
Tags: Cannot, Medical, PassionAnd in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
Tags: Best, Children, TimeBut the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
Tags: Detective, Novel, StoryI think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Tags: Actor, Fact, FantasiesI think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.
Tags: Blame, Nowadays, ParentsI think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
Tags: Character, Film, MusicI was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
Tags: Born, Life, LivedMy actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Tags: Actual, Childhood, LondonRehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Tags: Making, Process, WordTragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Tags: Between, Tragedy, WrongWatching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
Tags: Eyes, Love, StupidI made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Tags: Freedom, Friends, GoodI really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Tags: Story, Studying, ValuableI think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
Tags: Books, Place, WritingIt is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
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