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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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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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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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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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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The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.
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I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.
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If you ever have the option, come to the Olympics. It's, like, a fun time.
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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.
