Edmund Morgan Quotes

To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

Edmund Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013

Topics

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You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Andrew Card

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You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Sonam Kapoor

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I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

Michael Redhill

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I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Joseph Haydn

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Star Trek characters never go shopping.

Douglas Coupland

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My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

David Stern

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I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Clay Aiken

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I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Bobby McFerrin

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'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

Audra McDonald

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I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.

Sylvia Day

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It is very much in America's national security interests to ensure that the Taliban do not dominate Afghanistan and that neither ISIS nor al Qaeda continues their growth in the country.

Peter Bergen

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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Sharron Angle

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