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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• 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.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• 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.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• 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.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Imagination
  • Better
  • Memory

• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Age
  • Success

• I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Hard Work

• Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Cheating

• The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Work
  • Party