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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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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
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Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns all the Virginians all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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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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