Emma Thompson Quotes
P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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Just let your skin breathe.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
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The Witch had been aiming straight for her head, intending to tear it off. (Dear little creatures, these Witches, aren’t they?)
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The bad guys have way more fun, in my opinion. 'Bad guys' in quotes.
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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)
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You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
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P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!
