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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 t...
PETER SHAFFER

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was...
ATTICUS SHAFFER

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looki...
ATTICUS SHAFFER

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
IVAN SHAFFER

When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it
PETER SHAFFER

In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, b...
PETER SHAFFER

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.
PETER SHAFFER

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
PETER SHAFFER Nothing you did could have changed anything.
And that being angry and blaming yourself for not...
TESSA SHAFFER

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silv...
PETER SHAFFER

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
PETER SHAFFER Heaven left a hole in your heart.

But it’s up to you to choose if that hole will be fi...
TESSA SHAFFER I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, b...
PAUL SHAFFER To him, freedom was greater than love.
She hated that.
Because she had always thought t...
TESSA SHAFFER

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own...
PETER SHAFFER

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right...
PETER SHAFFER The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.
PAUL SHAFFER

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spo...
PETER SHAFFER Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you cou...
PAUL SHAFFER

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he'...
PETER SHAFFER

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter t...
PETER SHAFFER I am very, very cautious when to comes to energy exploration because I have seen in the past where i...
ADAM SHAFFER We are happy to be partnered with one of the pioneers of the broadband phone service industry.
ADAM SHAFFER

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me,...
PETER SHAFFER We make our choices about a month in advance.
WILLIAM SHAFFER It was just born and not even dry yet. We were careful not to disturb it. I got up close, took a few...
RON SHAFFER Scott was disappointed as he was 19th and just missed performing another list. We have talked all ye...
JEFF SHAFFER This year has been a lot tougher than last year. This is probably one of the toughest coaching jobs ...
DAMON SHAFFER I just don't feel comfortable going into the service.
ANDREW SHAFFER Before I moved to Bristol, I would have to drive a long distance to get to meetings. I was so excite...
PAUL SHAFFER Goodnight, Warren, we'll see ya.
PAUL SHAFFER When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell....
PAUL SHAFFER It's putting our drivers and putting our riders in that setting. It's just not secure.
MARK SHAFFER If they want a set of longhorns on the hood, we can't do that out of the factory.
ANDREW SHAFFER All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is hard...
ATTICUS SHAFFER 3. When making your dramatic exit, crawl along one of the web strands that extend outward from the c...
ANDREW SHAFFER Ferraris start at about $181,000, but buyers add some $20,00 in options and can have the car painted...
ANDREW SHAFFER You can make them open with a solid cover so you can put in electrical wiring for a ceiling fan and ...
TIM SHAFFER The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to dis...
BUTLER SHAFFER

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
PETER SHAFFER This trial is going to be a circus. I spent $850 on my cell-phone bill on top of the 1,200-minute pl...
THOMAS SHAFFER There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?
ROBERT SHAFFER Life is nutty; anything can happen.
PAUL SHAFFER Most of Virginia did well until August. Then, the hurricane, a wet fall and lackluster foliage, and ...
JOHN SHAFFER The students turn their applications in to the Dean of Students office, and then all members read th...
WILLIAM SHAFFER In that sense, he didn't sit still. He tried in various ways to stimulate and even provoke the depar...
WILLIAM SHAFFER In their defensive alignment their safeties were playing deep and their cornerbacks were near the si...
SCOTT SHAFFER constant construction, low ceilings, no windows and dirty everything.
CHRIS SHAFFER Quaid doesn?t need a big gap, and the front line made a great wedge. With his speed, it doesn?t take...
SCOTT SHAFFER

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The ...
PETER SHAFFER

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
PETER SHAFFER I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down...
PAUL SHAFFER

Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that'...
PETER SHAFFER

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films m...
PETER SHAFFER That's huge for the wheat industry.
CHRIS SHAFFER I think of all the things that I've gotten to do, all the wonderful people that I've played ...
PAUL SHAFFER There's nothing to be afraid of in a clinical trial. I am a walking billboard. I am living proof tha...
DICK SHAFFER It was very aggressive. She said we'll take you to the edge but we won't let you fall off.
DICK SHAFFER I wanted state-of-the-art treatment for a very aggressive disease. I wanted to fight fire with fire,...
DICK SHAFFER We mix it up to keep it interesting for us and the crowd.
DENNIS SHAFFER We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the origi...
DENNIS SHAFFER We've been together playing for 15 years now. We've been going through different drummers throughout...
DENNIS SHAFFER Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s) also threaten us.
BUTLER SHAFFER In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
BUTLER SHAFFER When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.
PAUL SHAFFER The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don'...
PAUL SHAFFER I think we responded well. The intensity level was up.
DAMON SHAFFER I told the ladies we had to make something happen. It was now or never, don't wait for someone else ...
DAMON SHAFFER It was a big character win. We relied on some new people, and they came through. That's huge.
DAMON SHAFFER

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
PETER SHAFFER You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'
PAUL SHAFFER I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker...
ATTICUS SHAFFER Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!
ATTICUS SHAFFER I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I&#...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I love any comedic zombie movies.
ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like '...
ATTICUS SHAFFER In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then bein...
ATTICUS SHAFFER We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. ...
ATTICUS SHAFFER It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thin...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it ver...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't...
ATTICUS SHAFFER Mr. Robles is not the type of person who wants to run away from this. He is very interested in coope...
GEORGE SHAFFER The grand jury obviously saw that they would have suffered the same fate if it were any other driver...
GEORGE SHAFFER He did not cause these deaths. He is totally innocent.
GEORGE SHAFFER We're talking about grand jury secrecy in part, and we're talking about a different type of motion t...
GEORGE SHAFFER Dan Campbell brings instant energy to a game. Against Oregon State, he was only in for about five mi...
DWAYNE SHAFFER It's surprising when a true freshman steps up like that. Both goals were just incredible goals. I kn...
DWAYNE SHAFFER This year, my goal is not to be 'just competitive.' My goal is to start beating some of these teams,...
DWAYNE SHAFFER I feel the freshman class is physically capable of playing right away. But as a coach, I know what w...
DWAYNE SHAFFER Everything's there to create the highest possible performance that golf shoes could produce. They ni...
HOWARD SHAFFER Buyers are essentially picking from approximately 225 different design combinations.
HOWARD SHAFFER We're not promising that you'll hit the ball like a pro, but you'll feel more comfortable on the cou...
HOWARD SHAFFER

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
PETER SHAFFER We think it's very important and it's a product type we are very interested in assisting with develo...
MARK SHAFFER Here we are, offering people a safe ride home, and we just don't have control of the situation to of...
MARK SHAFFER We're disappointed, but we've got to keep our heads up. We can only try to get better. That's all we...
MARK SHAFFER We need to field better as a team, and I need to develop an attitude on the mound. I like to help ou...
JUSTIN SHAFFER They're our biggest rival in baseball. The games are always going to be exciting.
JUSTIN SHAFFER I think everybody's aspirations as an elite athlete are to be in the top of their sport, and I think...
JEFF SHAFFER His NCAA championship score sends a signal that he is a player on the international platform scene. ...
JEFF SHAFFER I am really pleased with Corey's performance. She did what she needed to do to get ready for next we...
JEFF SHAFFER This is the best performance in Auburn history. We talked about being focused and confident and havi...
JEFF SHAFFER Steve put together two really solid lists. This is a great start to the meet for Steve and I am prou...
JEFF SHAFFER We're a debt-free township and we strive in our budget to keep it that way.
JEFF SHAFFER No one point is more important than another.
JEFF SHAFFER It's a dream come true.
JEFF SHAFFER There were some good and disappointing things on 3-meter. I thought we had dives that were in positi...
JEFF SHAFFER

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
ROBERT H. SHAFFER

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. Thi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Do you know what sentence of his (Wordsworth) I admire the most? It is "The bright day is done, and ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Treat a dog right and he'll treat you right. ... Cats is different, but I never held it against them...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Moses: God or crowd control?!?
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer ass...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path
MARY ANN SHAFFER

It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps ...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hasting...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, c...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name su...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect read...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing wi...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot p...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I never met a man half so true as a dog. Treat a dog right, and he'll treat you right. He'll keep yo...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
MARY ANN SHAFFER

They came here on Sunday, 30th June, 1940, after bombing us two days before. They said they hadn't m...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twent...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

The crematorium could not burn the bodies fast enough - so after we dug long trenches, we pulled and...
MARY ANN SHAFFER

Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wil...
MARY ANN SHAFFER We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

If that's not frightening, I don't know what is, ... That's chilling.

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