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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
Actor
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Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
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My worst quality is impatience.
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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
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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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But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use
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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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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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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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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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