Abi Morgan Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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The world can make you very angry.
