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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.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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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'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.
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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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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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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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I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
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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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During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
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