Emily Mortimer Quotes

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Time
  • Real
  • Moments

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Tall

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Like
  • Logical

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• My dad A.D. King, Uncle MLK, and Granddaddy King passed on to me their beliefs on biblical marriage. Life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage... We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God’s plan for marriage... It's time to start from scratch and lay the foundation all over again.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• So now I'm praying for the end of timeTo hurry up and arriveCause if I gotta spend another minute with youI don't think that I can really survive.I'll never break my promise or forget my vowBut God only knows what I can do right now.I'm praying for the end of timeIt's all that I can doPraying for the end of time, so I can end my time with you!

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • High
  • Rock

• Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

  

  Emily Mortimer
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