Emily Mortimer Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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I love to smile.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
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For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
