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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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English.
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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!
