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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it otherwise you're going to get wet.
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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'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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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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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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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 firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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The best way [to survive] the red carpet is by wearing Ugg boots. But unfortunately, I have not yet managed to persuade the people who style me at these times to let me do that.
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I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
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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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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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My worst quality is impatience.
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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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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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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 don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
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If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.
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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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The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
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