Emma Thompson Quotes
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
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Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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I love any kind of candy.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
