Emma Thompson Quotes
My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'
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Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
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I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
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I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
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Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
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Scientists are a bunch of romantics.
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We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.
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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
