Abi Morgan Quotes
To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.
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There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we do. We also need to be more open to the idea that any one input - in this case, polls - may not be the only way to hear what people are saying.
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With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
