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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.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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My worst quality is impatience.
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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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It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
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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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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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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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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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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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