Abi Morgan Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I grew up in New York.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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I have had lobbyists, and I have had some very good ones. They could do anything.
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I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.
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I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.
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In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.
