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.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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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.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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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.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
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A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.
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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
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People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
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I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.
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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.
