Abi Morgan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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«It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors the mayor.»
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The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.
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What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
