Emily Mortimer Quotes
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.
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Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.
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Working with Babyface was legendary.
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The anger of an ape-the threat of a flatterer:-these deserve equal regard.
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I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
