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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.
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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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I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.
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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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I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.
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I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.
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I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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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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I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.
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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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~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.~
Emma Thompson
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns all the Virginians all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
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