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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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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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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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Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.
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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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Without the ice, the earth will fall
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It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.
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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
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Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.
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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 think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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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 am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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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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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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Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
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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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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
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