Abi Morgan Quotes

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

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• When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Harmony

• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Season

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Me
  • Passion

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Bad
  • Really
  • Liar

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Character

• I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Concise
  • Compulsive
  • Shopper

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Good
  • You
  • Born

• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Black
  • Know
  • Paris

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Traditional
  • Oracle

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Children
  • Forever

• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

  

  Abi Morgan
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