Emily Mortimer Quotes
I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
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When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
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My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office.
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I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.
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I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.
