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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The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
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I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
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The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.
