Emma Thompson Quotes

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

Emma Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 15, 1959

Topics

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Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

John Niven

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I've always been a very goal-driven person.

Amanda Crew

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I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.

Torii Hunter

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A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

Robert Carlyle

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For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.

Rory Bremner

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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

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If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Moby

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My parents were obsessed with my education.

Cory Booker

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I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

Sylvia Day

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The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jennings

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If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, 'If I'm going to sing, I'm going to have to do it solo.' Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.

Shane Filan

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