Abi Morgan Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are.
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You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.
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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
