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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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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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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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
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Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
