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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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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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'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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Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
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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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We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
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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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My worst quality is impatience.
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
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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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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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