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People Quotes by Emma Thompson
- I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to…
- I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support.…
- It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be…
- 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…
- Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow.
- The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
- But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love…
- I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who…
- I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think…
- A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its…
- I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their…
- London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised,…
- The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever…
- I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
- There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to…
- ~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got…
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