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Peter Shaffer

"I 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."

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"I 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."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

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Akshay Vasu

"We've performed in South America and in Japan."

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Akshay Vasu

"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."

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Akshay Vasu

"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."

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Akshay Vasu

"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."

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Akshay Vasu

"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

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Akshay Vasu

"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America."

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Akshay Vasu

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

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Akshay Vasu

"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."

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Akshay Vasu

"No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld."

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Peter Shaffer
"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."

Life

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Peter Shaffer
"It 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."

Experience

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Peter Shaffer
"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything."

People

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Peter Shaffer
"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."

Comedy

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Peter Shaffer
"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character."

Music

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Peter Shaffer
"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."

First

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Peter Shaffer
"And 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."

Time

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Peter Shaffer
"You can't always let people do their own thing."

People

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

Play

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Peter Shaffer
"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."

Love

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