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Emily Mortimer Quotes

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Emily Mortimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: December 1, 1971

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Time Effort Me Never Hard Always

I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

Maya Angelou

Music Time Country Serious Done

Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.

John Legend

People Think Open-Minded Progressive

I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

Robert Sean Leonard

Best Win World Award Sunday Play

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

Ann Wilson

Women Woman Impossible You Play

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

Stephen Hough

Food Waste Atrocity

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

Stephanie Sigman

Learning Imagination Feel Week You

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really.

Roger McGuinn

Learning Time Guitar Back Two Lead

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Mike Pence

Work Hard Work Ideas American Birth

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

Martina Hingis

Parents Speak Born Because Still

I don't keep a list of people I want to talk to. It's organic. But I'd like to interview Tom Brady. Someday I'd love to meet Vladimir Putin. I'd ask him how he sees the landscape of the world, what could make it better, how that could be done.

Brian Grazer

Love People World Better Landscape

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

Paula Malcomson

Alone Fun People World Room Most

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

Noemie Lenoir

Family Car Beautiful Food Money