Peter Morgan Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
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Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
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I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.
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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
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I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
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Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.
