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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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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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.
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If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.
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I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
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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.
