Abi Morgan Quotes
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.
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I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
