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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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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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.
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A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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The world can make you very angry.
