Peter Morgan Quotes
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
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I'm not trying to be a role model to kids, because I don't have any children, but I do think everyone should have a free spirit.
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It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
