Emily Mortimer Quotes
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.
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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
