Peter Morgan Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
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During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
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I still come closest to success with drawing.
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.
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Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
