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Emma Thompson is a distinguished British actress celebrated for her diverse and accomplished career in film and theater. Born on April 15, 1959, Thompson has been recognized with numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 'Howards End'. She is also known for her performances in 'Sense and Sensibility', 'The Remains of the Day', and 'Love Actually'.

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“I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.”

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“I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.”

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“Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.”

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“We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Form Human Freedom

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“We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.”

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“I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.”

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“Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.”

Should Mean Inspiration Aspect Access Disability Disabled Aspects Of Life

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“What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together”

Trying Important Together Enjoy Watches

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“We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really”

Thinking Heavy Consumerism Hairstyles

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“I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas”

People Thinking Trying Country America Rich Pieces Areas Communicate Affected Tissues Rich Countries

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“Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.”

People Two Mom Shadow Peter Splits

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“Without the ice, the earth will fall”

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“Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming”

Feelings Guilty Global Warming

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“Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.”

Trying Looks Littles Bits Little Bit Deny

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“We all need somewhere where we feel safe”

Needs Feels Safe

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“Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.”

Writing Matter Desks

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“The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.”

People Love Life Facts Romance Young Sex Love Life You Like It

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“The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use”

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“But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use”

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“When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support - and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.”

Way Giving Hard Grows Enjoy Quality Support Products Trade Guarantees Farmers Minimum Delicious Guarantees That High Quality Fair Trade

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“I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.”

Thinking Way Humans Important Fighting Race Threat Aids Human Race Addresses Emergencies

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“Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.”

Body Worry Violence Shapes Reflection Size Your Body Criticize Acts Of Violence Body Shapes

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“Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.”

Failing Laughter Celebration Clown

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“You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.”

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“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.”

People Film Difficult Sides Easier Jokes

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“I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.”

Believe Book Greatness

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“I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.”

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“It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.”

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“Why do we wear them? They're so painful.”

Painful Heels High Heels

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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Humans Book Sometimes Stories Turns Human Beings Greatness Narrative Nourishment

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“Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.”

Writing Clear Nice Capacity Tables Rounds Actresses Introducing Too Nice

Book:Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries

About the Author

Born: April 15, 1959
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 131

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