Emma Thompson Quotes
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
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The automatic Kalashnikov is a tool, an implement designed for ordinary men, without much training or undue complications, to kill other men, and to be used in the conditions in which wars are often fought. But it's only a tool, and while its ready availability in many unstable lands can be seen as kindling violence, this is not simply because of the weapon's qualities themselves. It is because of the quantities of the weapons that have been made.
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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
