Emily Browning Quotes
A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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I'm more mature. I respect more the game as I should.
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Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
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I have a guy who does my hair. He's a car nut. And he was taking motorcycle lessons. And, what was my point?
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A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
