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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Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.
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One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
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You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
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The U.S. is becoming an industrial heartland again.
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I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
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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.
