Peter Morgan Quotes

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

Peter Morgan

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• I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Long
  • High

• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Real
  • School
  • Dance

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • First
  • Essential
  • Secrecy

• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• I respect the Premier League.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Respect
  • Premier League

• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Work
  • Done
  • Today

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Vision
  • Courage

• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Family
  • Training
  • Yourself

• The power of immigration, the power of the American dream, if you think about the American dream, it is the best brand out there.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Power
  • American
  • Dream

• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Good

• I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Writing
  • American
  • Help