Peter Morgan Quotes
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
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...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.
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Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.
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Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
