Emma Thompson Quotes
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
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From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.
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Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.
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You can't fool children.
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
