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.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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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.
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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.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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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.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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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.
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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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My one ambition is to play a hero.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
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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.
