Welsh - Playwright | 1968 -
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
Abi Morgan
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I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
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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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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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I like bowling with my kids at Shoreditch House.
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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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My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.
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I am always running away from something.
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Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
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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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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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I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet.
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