Emily Blunt Quotes

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

Emily Blunt

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Habits

• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Think
  • Moment

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Know
  • Proud

• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Driving

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Time
  • Good
  • Dad

• I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Action

• All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Weather

• It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Girl