Abi Morgan Quotes
I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
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We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana.
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Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumour, and personal malice. (p. 24)
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I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.
