Emma Thompson Quotes
There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.
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The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.
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The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
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I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
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It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
