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Quote by Emily Mortimer
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children theyre beauti

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children theyre beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. – Emily Mortimer

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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

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I borrowed my friends car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. – Emily Mortimer

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51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. Im afraid I could never be that cool in real life! – Emily Mortimer

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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. – Mike Krzyzewski

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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. – Leon Battista Alberti

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