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Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

Emma Thompson

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
Actor
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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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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.
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