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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.
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[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.
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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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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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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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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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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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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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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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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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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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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
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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 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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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
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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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