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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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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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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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
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Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
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My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.
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I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.
