Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan
Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBEis a British film writer and playwright. Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Damned United and Rush...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 April 1963
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There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can't quote something that isn't sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
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If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.
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We know that the postal privatization bills will now pass fairly quickly. He has this huge majority which almost gives him dictatorial power but how he wants to use it is still pretty unclear.
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We suspect there might have been some public fund buying.
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Certainly, I think to some extent Japan is happy to step back and let China take all the heat.
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Capital spending plans are quite impressive. The forecasts are strong and show a continuation of the recovery going forward.
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Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.
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It's not the busiest area in the whole of town, but we always have a lot of people in here so do a good trade.
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It's definitely positive news and suggests that the expansion is continuing, and if anything things might pick up a bit more in the second half of this year.
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Not a chance. We knew they'd be desperate to win in front of their fans. We really didn't take much notice of it. We knew what we had to do coming in and we got a good result.
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It's getting to the point where the Bank of Japan will start moving up rates gradually. There is upward pressure on prices and wages, which is something the Bank of Japan will look at quite carefully.
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The adoption of digital TV is accelerating around the world, ... As a result, the board can look forward with more confidence than was possible a year ago.