Peter Morgan Quotes

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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  • Thinking

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
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  • Body

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Age
  • Me
  • Dad

• If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Change
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• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

  

  Sally Quinn
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  • House

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
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• I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Artist
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  • Musicians

• To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

  

  Adam Clarke
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  • God
  • Greatest

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

  

  Olympia Brown
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  • Future
  • Present

• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Myself
  • Act
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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Mushrooms

• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Sunshine

• In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

  

  Pope Francis
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  • God

• A good memory is needed after one has lied.

  

  Pierre Corneille
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• Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
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• I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

  

  Peter Morgan
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