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Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.


Emily Berrington

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EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.
EMILY GIFFIN Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.
EMILY OSTER To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the ...
EMILY POST When we anthropomorphize the egg and sperm, when we turn them into a miniature bride and groom compl...
EMILY MARTIN People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...
EMILY BRONTE If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces e...
EMILY POST Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have go...
EMILY POST Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
EMILY DICKINSON I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
EMILY BLUNT It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.
EMILY PROCTER Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important t...
EMILY GIFFIN Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
EMILY DICKINSON