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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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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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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Never wear plaid.
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'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.
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The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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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.
