Peter Morgan Quotes

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

Peter Morgan

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• I never use that word, retire.

  

  B. B. King
  • Never
  • Word
  • Retire

• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Better
  • Trump

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Fan
  • Entertainment
  • Dallas

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • True
  • Game

• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Day
  • Look
  • Camera

• I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
  • Ideas

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Women
  • Know
  • Sex

• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Leaving

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Dark

• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  

  Michael O'Brien
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Television

• It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • Nice

• I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Peace
  • Laughter

• I have a strong appreciation for oversize sweatshirts, loose mohair sweaters, and jeans that are frayed at the ankles.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Strong
  • Appreciation

• I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

  

  Peter Morgan