Peter Morgan Quotes
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.
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I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.
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Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.
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I remember vividly, as a kid, my mother had 'Jesus Was a Capricorn' and used to listen to it over and over and over.
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I might like to believe that every day, every hour, every minute of every hour of every day with Henry was *not* the happiest time I ever knew. I might like to believe that I am remembering it that way only because the happiest time ever makes it a better story. Because that's all you have left after people are gone from you, some things and some stories.
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Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.
