Emma Thompson Quotes
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
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You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.
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Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
