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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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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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
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I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
