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Emily Mortimer
Related I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, w... AARON RODGERS Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can... LEROY NEIMAN It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin... DREW BARRYMORE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ... IRA GLASS Sometimes when you're in different countries, everything has become so homogenised and there'... WILL YUN LEE If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're m... KAREN SALMANSOHN I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarra... BERT BLYLEVEN You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a whi... RAM KAPOOR If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald's or Wendy's, you're defeating the pur... MATT KEMP But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It... KEANU REEVES Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part fo... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It... TONY DUNGY I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doin... ANDY MURRAY There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a worko... DANICA MCKELLAR If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec... IRVING KIRSCH I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to ... DAVID TEPPER Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it. JOE PERRY I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and y... MISTY COPELAND Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's... CAITLIN DOUGHTY You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I&... CATE BLANCHETT Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you... DEMETRI MARTIN So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, ... CRAIG SAGER My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the ... RAUL LABRADOR I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but y... DOUG STANHOPE There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything&... TOM DELONGE When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You'r... STONE GOSSARD If you had a job, and every day you're going back home and telling all your friends how horrible... STEVE SCALISE Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's ... BUN E. CARLOS 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, ... TALULAH RILEY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with ... MARTIN VILLENEUVE But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks,... JAMIE FOXX In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it'... DAVID MILLAR If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for mys... KIM KARDASHIAN At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical a... AUDRINA PATRIDGE I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it... ZOEY DEUTCH If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're g... DONALD TRUMP When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely e... BILLY PORTER You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting... LEE WESTWOOD If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had... MARSHAWN LYNCH A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot... AIDAN TURNER If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apoll... FRANK VINCENT You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New Yo... JOHN DARNIELLE Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist&... JACK WHITEHALL Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're t... GRANT ACHATZ I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genr... ALDEN EHRENREICH If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whate... SNOOP DOGG I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it... JEMIMA KIRKE When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody. LARRY WILMORE My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's li... MAIWENN At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to as... NAYVADIUS CASH I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing. KATEY SAGAL It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and a... DIDO ARMSTRONG All the time, you're going into your modeling agency and they're taking Polaroids of you in ... MELISSA ORDWAY It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aw... LYNSEY ADDARIO I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it&... MARIA SEMPLE Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramat... BEN FOLDS Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. Ho... MARY ROACH Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you'v... SHAUN WHITE Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. JOE LOUIS By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps ru... CARLA KORBES On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to ... JIMMY FALLON It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ... FRAN KRANZ Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and... ALEXEI SAYLE When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an... CHRIS PRATT Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anythin... WARIS DIRIE I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you... CHARLIE HUNTER You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, an... BOB DYLAN It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down... ANDREW DOST I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of... EILEEN DAVIDSON I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up o... MICHAEL HUTCHENCE There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. ... MIKE NICHOLS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your o... NIGEL KENNEDY When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situation... BILL CALLAHAN There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace... GEORGE CLOONEY I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... CHRIS EVANS It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of y... BEN FOSTER I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never... MERYL STREEP If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing... JAMES DYSON It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night telev... CRAIG FERGUSON It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed ... STEVE ALFORD When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when yo... MAC MILLER It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just s... CHRIS PRATT Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the un... FINN WITTROCK
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The simple manners and the deed sublime:
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but grow and gather to itself such explosi... EMILY Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 Sin is not only manife... MORTIMER J. ADLER When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. SIR JOHN MORTIMER Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have ever... SIR JOHN MORTIMER There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much a... SIR JOHN MORTIMER The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. SIR JOHN MORTIMER The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth... SIR JOHN MORTIMER I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckl... SIR JOHN MORTIMER The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin... 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EMILY OSTER I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl... EMILY WATSON Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain... EMILY DICKINSON May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - ... EMILY BRONTë Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ... EMILY BRONTë Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no... EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea... EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence! EMILY BRONTë It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m... EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world. EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . . EMILY BRONTë It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo... EMILY CARROLL How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! EMILY DICKINSON My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l... EMILY WEISS The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th... EMILY DESCHANEL Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. EMILY DICKENSON Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out. EMILY DICKINSON Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call... EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But Microscopes are prudent
In an emerg... EMILY DICKINSON Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. EMILY KIMBROUGH Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ... EMILY BRONTë