Abi Morgan Quotes
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
Abi Morgan
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
Damon Galgut
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
Gabriel Byrne
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
Malcolm D. Lee
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I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
Tao Lin
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
Iain De Caestecker
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
Nathan Fielder
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
Irwin Thomas
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
Aaron Stanford
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
Maggie Gallagher
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As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
Zendaya
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold Ramis
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I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.
Mary Landrieu
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We're very excited . . . I'm flying up in a few days to Rochester. We're doing a few production rehearsals up there for a few days and then we kick off the tour on the first. So it's an exciting time for the Priest.
Richie Faulkner
Judas Priest
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My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes.
David Lowery
Camper Van Beethoven
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Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.
Cotton Mather
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Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
Abi Morgan