Peter Morgan Quotes
I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
Quotes to Explore
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he created, but he was a maniacal tyrant.
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I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
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By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
