"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."

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Source : "Emily Mortimer: 'Secrets are a part of all of our lives'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2010.

Emily Mortimer

#Religious Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.”
“when you can't change a thing, don't let it change you ...”

Source : Kate Langley Bosher (2012). “Mary Cary "Frequently Martha”, p.58, tredition
“my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.”
“I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.”
“... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.”
“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.”
“Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.”
“Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.”

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