Abi Morgan Quotes

I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
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• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

  

  Garry Marshall
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• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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• If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

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• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  

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• At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

  

  Matt Stone

• I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.

  

  Fleur East
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• I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.

  

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• I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.

  

  Abi Morgan