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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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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.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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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.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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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.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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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.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
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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.
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
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Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.
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The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
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I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.
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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.
