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.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Children
  • Family
  • Free

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • American
  • Together
  • Violence

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Parents
  • Past
  • Clever

• I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Age
  • Change
  • Die

• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Long
  • Suicide

• My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Divorce