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
  • Culture
  • You

• 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

• 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

• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hear

• I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Always
  • Someone

• Melancholy sees the worst of things,-things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • May
  • Beautiful

• I don't know where it's going, but I'm sticking with it!

  

  Jimmy Durante

• The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Revolution
  • Intellectual
  • Satisfied

• Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Wind

• I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Fights

• 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