Emily Mortimer Quotes
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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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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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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This love is silent.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?'
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Is there a thinker apart from thought?
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
