Peter Morgan Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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I just want to develop and be the best player I can be.
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Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.
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Most historians are engaged in fiction.
