Emily Mortimer Quotes

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Emily Mortimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeExperienceTheatreThinkListen

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

MedicalSchoolThinkThinkingYou

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

Jeffrey Toobin

JobThinkRulesNowTeachersFollow

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

John Negroponte

WarSituationCivil WarOverYears

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

Maureen Chiquet

HistoryGreatPastBrandLuxuryGet

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

Amitabh Bachchan

DanceSongCinemaIndiaEmotional

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Tom Hanks

WrongSometimesHumanReasonThings

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

Robin Williams

WallsInternetLookStartedGot

I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

Mat Kearney

ChristianNeverLabelWanted

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

Joshua Lederberg

YearsImplicationsJumpsEnormous

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

ProsperityOthersSeenOnlyVirtues

You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.

Jonathan Anderson

HistoryFashionThinkBrandYou

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

Dennis Prager

RacismWorldAmericaCountryKnow

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