Abi Morgan Quotes
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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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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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I spent most of the Seventies living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and most of the Eighties living in Stoke-on-Trent.
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One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
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I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.
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I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
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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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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 am always running away from something.
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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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You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.
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'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
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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 understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.
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The thing I love about London is that it is filled with migrants, including myself.
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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 was never cool as a kid.
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I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.
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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 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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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
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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 think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.