Emily Mortimer Quotes

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it.

Emily Mortimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

Andrea Bocelli

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Stephen King

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I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

Michael Palin

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Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.

Michael T. Flynn

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I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Julia Sweeney

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I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Jay Parini

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Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

Jon Ronson

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I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

Constance Zimmer

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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

Claire Tomalin

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I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

Brian Floca

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I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.

Brandon Flowers

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My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Allyson Schwartz

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