Emily Watson Quotes
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
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My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.
