"There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about……" — Emma Thompson
"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 work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
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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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