"Children are much more understanding of the suddenness……" — Emma Thompson
"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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97 Quotes by Emma Thompson
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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed…
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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You…
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Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here.…
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It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What…
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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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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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
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I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really…
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More Arbitrariness Quotes
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Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a…
— Pope John Paul II
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others…
— Peter Singer
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I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not…
— Confucius
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before…
— Eric Hoffer
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The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a…
— Eric Metaxas
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It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a…
— Daniel Kehlmann
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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith,…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
— Jonathan Haidt
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If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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