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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Emma Thompson

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
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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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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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You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.
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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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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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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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Without the ice, the earth will fall
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The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
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Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
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Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.
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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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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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I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
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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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I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.
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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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