Emma Thompson Quotes
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
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I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
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The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
