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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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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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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I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.
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I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
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I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
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The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.
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We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.
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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.
