Abi Morgan Quotes
If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.
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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.
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Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
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If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.