Category: Emma Thompson

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Emma Thompson Work

Emma Thompson | work

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.

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Emma Thompson Women

Emma Thompson | women

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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Emma Thompson Women

Emma Thompson | women

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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Emma Thompson Women

Emma Thompson | women

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.

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Emma Thompson Women

Emma Thompson | women

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look.

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Emma Thompson Truth

Emma Thompson | truth

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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Emma Thompson society

Emma Thompson | society

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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Emma Thompson sad

Emma Thompson | sad

We’ve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that’s easier. It’s much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

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Emma Thompson parenting

Emma Thompson | parenting

Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

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Emma Thompson movingon

Emma Thompson | movingon

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.

Sports massage for shin splints. Lozenges and candies for cough comfort natural cough remedies. Only biggest f00ls think we need a national cathedral – kwaw kese.