Abi Morgan Quotes
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.
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In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
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The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
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I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
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I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
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I'm a cheap date.
