A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
Quote by Emma Thompson
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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 Quotes
- 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.
- A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
- Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- If you do bad things to show how best you are, you'll fail. 'Cause people will see the kind of a stupid you are, not your wisdom.
- A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
- Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.
- Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.