Peter Morgan Quotes
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.
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Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
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I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
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The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.
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I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.
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If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.