Emily Mortimer Quotes

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

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• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

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• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
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• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

  

  Olivia Cooke
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• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
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• I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

  

  Jack Palance
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• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
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• There's something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C. Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set.

  

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• Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I think, also, it's not just about quantity - that's what we've been discovering. It's also about quality.

  

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• Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts.

  

  R. K. Milholland
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• Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

  

  John Mica
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• New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Time
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