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

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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

• Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such monsters, however, have existed; and the heart almost bleeds at the recital of the cruel acts such have been guilty of; it teaches us, however, what human nature is when left to itself; not only treacherous, but desperately wicked.

  

  Charles Buck
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Reason

• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Die
  • Writer
  • Martyr

• Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

  

  James Harden

• When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus
  • Truth
  • Fear

• Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

  

  David Bianculli
  • Drama
  • Television
  • Impossible

• 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