#play

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

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. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

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

— Peter Shaffer

#making #play #process #publishing #rehearsing

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ages #being #entrances #exits #his

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#full #fury #heard #his #hour

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#every man #hold #i #man #mine

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#affection #almost #any #character #having

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. ↗

— Robert Shea

#ahead #another #bypass #chess #get

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty. ↗

— Jules Shear

#how #i #lefty #myself #play

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#cartoons #football #i #playing #too