Abi Morgan Quotes
One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
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I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
