Abi Morgan Quotes

Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

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• Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Friend
  • Best

• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Humanity
  • Happiness
  • Ugly

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• 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?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • History
  • Alone

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Getting Older

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • World
  • Batman
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• 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.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• 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.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Scared

• A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Help
  • Model

• Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Time
  • Done
  • Happy

• Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Help
  • Stop
  • Caring

• Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Time
  • History