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Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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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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