"There is a painful difference between the expectation……" — Emma Thompson
"There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty."
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97 Quotes by Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson has 97 quotes on this site.
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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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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain…
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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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More Certainty Quotes
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one of 970 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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