Emma Thompson Quotes
I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.
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The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.
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One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
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I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
