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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.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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 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 firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
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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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If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.
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Without the ice, the earth will fall
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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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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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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.
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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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You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.
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I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.
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There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.
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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
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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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I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.
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