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Peter Morgan Quotes

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: April 10, 1963

Topics

I Am Writing Loved Him Internal Am

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

Wolf Blues Chicago Boy Coming Were

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Politics Washington Personal Contact

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Facts Interesting Find Like Them

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Life Good You Big Part Realizing

Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.

Good I Am World Think End Mean

I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.

I Am Democracy Party Desire Want

Now, I know a lot of things in the big man's world are not what they seem: a lot of people are out for themselves, and you can't always trust what someone says.

Sonny Bill Williams

Trust Man People World Someone You

I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

Character Go Know Want Movement

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Great Think You Secrets Know Matter

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

Science Financial Canada Crisis Than

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

Love Marriage Death Government You

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Character Black American Important

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