Abi Morgan Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
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I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
