Abi Morgan Quotes

I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.

Abi Morgan

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• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Player

• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Done
  • Art

• There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Internet
  • Might
  • Holocaust

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Single

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Culture

• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Career
  • Day
  • Broken

• I am still fairly new to the whole social media thing - I am definitely tweeting and Facebooking. It's a nice way to connect with fans.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Fans
  • Social Media
  • Connect

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Family
  • Girl

• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Country
  • Die
  • Fight

• I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Perspective
  • Canvas

• It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Weird

• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz

• The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Circumstances

• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Moving

• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

  

  Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Great
  • Winning
  • Struggle

• It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Puppy

• I write an actual script rather quickly - a draft will take me two weeks - but I write a lot of drafts. My big thing is I don't re-read. When I write, I never re-read back. I'll send it, because if I re-read back, it will cripple me.

  

  Abi Morgan