Abi Morgan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
-
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
-
I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
-
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.
-
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
-
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.
-
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.
-
In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.
-
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.
-
Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
-
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.
-
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
-
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
-
The shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night.
-
I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
-
It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
-
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.
-
I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
-
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
-
I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
-
I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.
-
Home is anywhere I hang my hair
-
Even as a child, when kids my age would watch cartoons, I preferred watching horror flicks. I had watched some Hollywood horror flicks and even films made by the Ramsay brothers by the time I was six! I have always been biased towards that genre.
-
I'm a cheap date.
