Abi Morgan Quotes
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My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'
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There are so many actresses I want to write for. I see them, and I think, 'Why is she not playing that lead? What's happened to that actress?' I think all I can do is to write parts for women, to say, 'Keep going, keep acting, because there are parts for you. There will be those plays.'
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I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
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Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
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I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.
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London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.
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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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I was never cool as a kid.
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I am always running away from something.
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I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.
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I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
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Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you don't stop until you get to the end. The theory is that you have something you cannot not say: this is the engine that propels you through to the last page.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
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When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.
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I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.