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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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 father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
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I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.
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Hitler is a prodigious genius.
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I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
