Emily Mortimer Quotes
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.
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Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly-it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
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You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
