#po

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #because #better #drawn #i

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#children #conferences #courage #draw #go

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #being #boring #exposing #risk

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#except #good #good book #me #responsibility

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#cure #get #give #god #him

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #kind #name #poetry #want

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#characters #feel #get #mind #play

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#becoming #both #class #parents #supported

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #becomes #blot #ink #into