Abi Morgan Quotes
Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
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As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
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Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.
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Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
