Peter Morgan Quotes

I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

Peter Morgan

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• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

  

  Fleur East
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Pressure

• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Light
  • Single

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Grateful
  • Ready
  • Lady

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Live
  • You
  • Lived

• A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Want
  • Career

• One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.

  

  Zachary Schomburg
  • Past
  • Ocean

• You'd be surprised how inspired you'll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

  

  Phoebe Cates
  • Different
  • Inspired

• The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Baseball

• She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • She
  • Excellence

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done