Peter Morgan Quotes
When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.
