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" A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. "
Emma Thompson
Look
Pain
Thinking
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" I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. "
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Two
Point
" The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. "
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You
Society
" If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. "
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" If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. "
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Human Rights
Need
" One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about? "
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Time
Truth
" My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs. "
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Mother
Never
Result
" 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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Knowledge
Done
Gap
" A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. "
Emma Thompson
Culture
New York
Lost
" Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. "
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Advice
Just
Half
" Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. "
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Listening
Small
Communication
" Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that. "
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Seriously
Past
Myself
" My worst quality is impatience. "
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Quality
Worst
Impatience
" Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film. "
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End
You
Beginning
" I don't have technique because I never learnt any. "
Emma Thompson
Technique
Learnt
Because
" Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you. "
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You
Good
Need
" When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. "
Emma Thompson
Result
Daughters
Leave
" 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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Time
People
Great
" My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman. "
Emma Thompson
Appearance
Feel
More
" You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face. "
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Satisfaction
Pie
Face
" During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. "
Emma Thompson
Doing
Party
You
" But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. "
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Hurt
Calm
Death
" I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. "
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Culture
Care
Family
" There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys. "
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Work
Think
Children
" Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything. "
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Sometimes
Real
Me
" 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. "
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Work
Rich
Think
" Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. "
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End
Me
Watch
" 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 want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable. "
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Home
People
Time
" We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. "
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Consumerism
Very
Think
" Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort. "
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Tell
More
Mind
" I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments. "
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Moral
Problem
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