Abi Morgan Quotes
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
