Abi Morgan Quotes
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.
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From the age of 15 to 50, I'd hardly stepped out of a kitchen. I just wanted to live a little, to spend time with my wife and children. The first time I saw snow was when I was 50, because I'd never had the time before.
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Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
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I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
