Abi Morgan Quotes
I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.
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I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
