Abi Morgan Quotes
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
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I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
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I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
