Peter Morgan Quotes
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.
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I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.
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There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.
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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
