Abi Morgan Quotes
Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
Quotes to Explore
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
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The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
