Peter Morgan Quotes
I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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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.'
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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.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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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.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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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.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.
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I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
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I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.
