Peter Morgan Quotes
My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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After Bill is exhausted at a baseball fantasy camp, walking crooked.
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I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.
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I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.
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One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.
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In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.
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My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
