Abi Morgan Quotes
I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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I just think you have got to bring out good music.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
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My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.
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We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
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I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
