List of Peter Shaffer Quotes

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Peter Shaffer
Total Quotes 41
What was evident was that mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. and finished as most music is never finished. displace one note and there would be diminishment. displace one phrase and structure would fall. i was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at absolute beauty.
Fall Ink Would Be
You can't always let people do their own thing.
People
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in london.
Childhood London Adolescence
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. i am their champion. i am their patron saint.
Champion Saint Mediocrity
Figaro is a bad play. it stirs up hatred between the classes. in france, it has caused nothing but bitterness. my own dear sister,antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
Fear Writing Class
All my wife has ever taken from the mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled sally and peppy.
Funny Taken Humor
Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. pain that's unique to you. you can't just dip into the common bin and say 'that's enough!'.
Pain Unique Looks
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. publishing a play is reversing the process.
Play Flesh Process
I think i did have fantasies about being an actor. in fact, i know i did.
Thinking Actors Facts
I was born in liverpool in england, and i lived there for the first nine years of my life.
Years Nine Firsts
Black comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. it's the chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Dark Light Play
It's an extraordinary thing about mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
Strong Tire Extraordinary Things
  • Born: May 15, 1926
  • Died: June 6, 2016
  • Occupation: Playwright
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