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Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
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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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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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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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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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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.
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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 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 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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~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~
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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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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
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I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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