#so

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#exotic #feel #great #i #i feel

Some people come alive at night. I'm hopeless by 9 p.m. Coffee and Cadbury buy me an extra half hour. Often I can't get my clothes off I'm so far gone. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#buy #clothes #coffee #come #extra

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

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. ↗

— John Mortimer

#been #exchange #fortune #freedom #freedom of speech

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ↗

— John Mortimer

#life #milk #modern #shelf #shelf life

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

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!. ↗

— Johann Most

#maintains #none #revolutionary #say #shame

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#been #between #escape #fantasy #fiction

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry. ↗

— Joe Morton

#happens #i #industry #love #play

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#cast #direct #directors #forget #performance