Emily Mortimer Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
Jack Harbaugh -
I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
Gabrielle Aplin -
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
Hannibal Buress -
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
Randy Harrison
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
Taylor Sheridan -
It's kind of fun to be sexy.
Tea Leoni -
I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
Adam Grant -
You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
Ed Rendell -
One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
Gail Kelly -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness
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People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.
Yuna -
We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
Edgar Wright -
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
Imran Khan -
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
Orhan Pamuk -
Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.
Rachel Nichols
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Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.
Karen Katz -
I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
Chuck D -
Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.
Katie Stevens -
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
Immanuel Kant -
I want to discover more things about acting.
Emily Mortimer