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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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted;You know it's lanterns in the skyFor angels who are losted.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
