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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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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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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You can't give up on your dreams.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see. Some clubs, the drunker the audience gets, the more they heckle.
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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
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I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.
