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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If it's a regular day, I won't wear any makeup, just leave my hair down and head out to the car.
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I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.
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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
