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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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
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Organization kills.
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
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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.
