Abi Morgan famous quotes
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I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.
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Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.
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The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.
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I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.
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I find it fascinating to see other people's photos on social media but I don't upload pictures myself. I don't even know how to. I'm completely digital-phobic.
-- Abi Morgan
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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