Peter Morgan Quotes

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

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• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Law
  • Sick
  • Medicine

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Black
  • Speak
  • Walk

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Professional
  • Manager
  • Farm

• I'm telling you stories. Trust me.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Trust

• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Now
  • Paint
  • Oil

• I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood.

  

  Daesung
  • Style
  • Clothes
  • Dresses

• There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

  

  Peter Morgan
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