Abi Morgan Quotes
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
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I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
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There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
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You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.
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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
