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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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
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Just let your skin breathe.
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If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
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There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.
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Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.
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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!
