Peter Morgan Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I'm afraid to fail again.
Jackie Chan -
I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
Paige Craig -
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian -
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen -
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
Taylor Swift
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Beatrice Wood -
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper -
If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
Patricia Cornwell -
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Victoria de los Angeles -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
Ferran Adria -
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Zaha Hadid -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt -
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
John Joseph Lydon -
Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.
Melina Matsoukas -
Inspiration comes from everywhere: New York City is inspiration, my pedigree, every lesson that I’ve learned along the way from assisting, etc. But I guess the biggest challenge in shooting musicians is to really try to nail what that particular project is going to feel like forever. I always ask for as much information from my subjects as possible.
Jonathan Mannion -
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Naomi Watts -
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.
Kit Harington -
I watch drama on DVD because I can't stand ad breaks.
Peter Morgan