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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.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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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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It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
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