Peter Morgan Quotes
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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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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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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Americans are just like psychos. They run around in big circles and punch people, and there's always a leader. There's like, one big heavy dude just walking around going, 'get out of the way, or I'll break you!'
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The human element and human judgment around understanding the physics of machines and the process, and how those come together, I think there's going to be a balance we all need to figure out how to strike.
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
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Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
