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I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.

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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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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 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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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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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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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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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 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 don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
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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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It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.
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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 insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
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I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.
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