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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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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I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
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We live it up down here.
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In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
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We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
