Abi Morgan Quotes
I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.
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I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.
