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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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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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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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I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.
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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 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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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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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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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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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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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
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My worst quality is impatience.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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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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