Emily Mortimer Quotes
Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
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I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.
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For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
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Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone.
