Emily Mortimer Quotes

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Emily Mortimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

YourselfTalkingYouFindToo Much

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Jen Kirkman

LiePeopleSometimesWillWrite

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

Max Winkler

YourselfHappyThinkFeelYouFind

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Robert Kiyosaki

VictimRatherThanVictor

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Angelina Jolie

WalkingProblemDownStreetBoyish

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

Stendhal

PeopleReadingStoryHorrorWithout

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

Rob Bell

GodBelieveHellHeavenImportant

We know about man's impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

Rose George

WaterOceanFishingManImpactPlay

America is a country defined by a set of ideas, and when people choose to accept those ideas, they should be able to become Americans, as fully so as any - and perhaps more so than most - regardless of how recently they or their ancestors arrived upon our shores. This is the true American tradition, which as conservatives we must defend.

Robert Zubrin

PeopleIdeasAmericanAmericaChoose

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

Moby

SchoolPhilosophyBrightStudyArts

I like the tournaments at home. The crowd is always behind you.

Dominic Thiem

HomeYouAlwaysCrowdBehindLike

As a mum of two myself, I know how important it is to encourage your kids to get involved in a variety of different skills as they grow up.

Debra Stephenson

ChildhoodKidThingsBeingDifferent

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

BrokenPeopleListeningSpeakUp

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