Abi Morgan Quotes

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Know
  • Drawing

• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • Want

• I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Long
  • Religious

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Seattle

• When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Keep

• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

  Sally Watson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Breakfast

• I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • People
  • Contact
  • Call

• The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Imagination

• It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • History
  • Past
  • Culture

• When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • People
  • Money