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I 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. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#books #endemic #grow #i #i think

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise. ↗

— John Shadegg

#advocate #already #borders #citizenship #compromise

We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct. ↗

— John Shadegg

#clear message #commit #conduct #country #dealt

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#false #full #heart #language #may

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

— Peter Shaffer

#detective story #did #first #i #my own

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

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#actor #being #did #fact #fantasies

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#bitter #eyes #happiness #how #into

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