Emily Watson Quotes

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

Emily Watson

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• Crying

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• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Future
  • Same
  • Diversity

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Pain
  • Victory
  • Far

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Support
  • Sufficient
  • Store

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • More
  • Leaders

• I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Poverty

• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • World
  • View

• The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Words
  • Opinion
  • Hurt

• As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Mind
  • Truth

• On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • School
  • Education
  • English

• I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Kids
  • Involved

• Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

  

  Emily Watson
  • Comedy
  • Dying
  • Crying