Emma Thompson Quotes
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The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
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Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
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Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.
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Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
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If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
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I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
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Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.
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My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
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I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.
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~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~
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Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming
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I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
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My worst quality is impatience.
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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!
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I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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