Emily Watson Quotes
It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
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Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
