Emilia Fox Quotes

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Emilia Fox

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Black
  • Speak
  • Walk

• I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Remember
  • First
  • Details

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Right

• You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Respect

• On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • See

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Up
  • Things
  • Strange

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Very
  • Bed
  • Early

• I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Comedy
  • Really
  • Terrifies

• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Connection
  • Trouble

• In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Law

• For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Art
  • Color

• GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Dr. Dobson, ...in the Daily Oklahoman, you were quoted saying, 'Patrick Leahy is a God's people hater. I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people.' Now, Dr. Dobson, that doesn't sound like a particularly Christian thing to say. Do you think you owe Senator Leahy an apology?

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• What a piece of work is a man

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Philosophical
  • Pieces

• Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Families
  • Faults
  • Attributes

• I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

  

  Emilia Fox