Emily Mortimer Quotes
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.
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People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
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It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
