Peter Morgan Quotes
As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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Serious drama in a significant degree began at Harvard in the 1880s. In 1881, the Cercle Francais initiated the annual French play, and shortly afterwards the German and Spanish clubs added their productions.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule.
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As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.
