Peter Morgan Quotes

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Heart
  • Wife
  • Anger

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

  

  Gary Player
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Thoughts

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Education
  • Value
  • California

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Soul
  • Democracy

• I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Father

• You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Writing
  • Intelligent