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Abi Morgan Quotes

I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: welsh
Birth: 1968

Topics

People Wait Admire Always Room Stay

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Sea School I Am Sail Library Sails

When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.

Yourself Hair Think Present Body

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Plans Big Because Big Fan Customers

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.

Time Sometimes Try Difficult First

It won't happen. It would be an impossible dream. But I'd love to see 'Citizens United' overruled.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Love Impossible Dream See Happen

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Father You Jokes Shoot Keep Going

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

Work Day Value Free Rocks Labor

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Focus Red President Reason Resources

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Wish Doing Camera Possible I Wish

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Good Words Smart Ideas Evil Book

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Christopher Meloni

Conservative Republican Background

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

William J. Clinton

Work Grateful Together I Am People

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