Peter Morgan Quotes

I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.

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• For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

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  • Thought
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• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
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• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

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• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
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  • Received

• I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
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• Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Done
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
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• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
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• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

  Barry Took
  • Life
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• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
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  • Body

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

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• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

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• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

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  • People
  • Everyone
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• Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

  

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• We could take any product, slap that logo on it and sell it.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Product
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• I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Good
  • Parents

• If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Sexy
  • Sugar

• The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Life
  • World
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• I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Decision