Emma Thompson Quotes
A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.
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It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
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To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
