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.

  

  Jack Falahee
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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.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
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• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
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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.

  

  Kate Mara
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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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
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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.'

  

  Taran Killam
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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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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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.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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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.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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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.'

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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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.

  

  Damien Rice
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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.

  

  Samantha Power
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  • Famine

• I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.

  

  Manika
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• I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

  

  Deborah Ellis
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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away.

  

  Patty Loveless
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  • COPD
  • Emphysema

• I was never allowed to play with guns when I was a child. While various friends were able to scamper around the woods with their Johnny Sevens, I had to make do with an old twig. And convincing an eight-year-old he was dead simply because I'd pointed a piece of larch his way was not quite as easy as you might imagine.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
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• I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

  

  Abi Morgan
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