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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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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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
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Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.
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I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.
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If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
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Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I - I show pictures of my airplanes.
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Most historians are engaged in fiction.
