Abi Morgan Quotes
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave.
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Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.
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All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
