Abi Morgan Quotes
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I can paint in jail.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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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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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
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Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
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Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
