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.Abi Morgan
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
Kat Dahlia -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
Dana Plato
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
Walid Muallem -
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid -
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 -
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 -
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor -
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
Hans Kung
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
Yani Tseng -
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 -
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.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
Zach Galligan -
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
Aaron Sorkin
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We're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervour…religious fervour and if you live to be a thousand years old will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamn sense?
David Letterman -
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar -
The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.
Daniel Hannan -
My heart is really in building coalitions.
Aja Brown -
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when am I going to write this, am I going to be able to write this, what is this image about - and I'm thinking about it all the time, but I'm not really inside it, inside the writing.
Jayne Anne Phillips -
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