Emma Thompson Quotes
During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Every wall is a door.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
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With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'
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J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
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At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.
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My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.
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During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
