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I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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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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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use
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