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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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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You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
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Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.
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Everybody knows you're going to miss some. It's just the reality and the probability of it. It's the ultimate paradox for a kicker. You go out expecting to make every kick, but you also know it's probably not going to happen. So you have these two conflicting thoughts and realities. The really good kickers are the ones who can process that information. That's what I'm learning to do.
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The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
