Peter Morgan Quotes

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

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• May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Time
  • Long
  • May

• 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.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• 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!

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Exciting

• 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.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Discrimination

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Community
  • Rights
  • Supporting

• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dream
  • Follow
  • Fellow

• When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Best
  • Easier

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Trust

• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greatest

• I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Yelling

• If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Change
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Gym

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• Our small businesses are the largest source of job creation in our country. I am honored to join the incredibly impressive economic team that President-elect Trump has assembled to ensure that we promote our country’s small businesses and help them grow and thrive.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Country
  • Job
  • Help

• Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Time

• I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Really Good

• I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Girl

• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Bad
  • Poetry
  • Person

• Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

  

  Peter Morgan