#cho

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're 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

#beautiful #believe #children #dad #had

I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's something too weirdly predictable about it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#already #annoyed #bit #feel #i

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. ↗

— Moses

#before #blessing #choose #curse #day

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#anyone #anything #because #choose #clear

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#essay #got #had #high #high school

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#amount #basketball #coach #college #derived

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#bands #completely #done #i #job

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#choice #commonwealth #go #i #lose

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#afford #been #film #film school #get