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" 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. "

Emma Thompson

Mother

Never

Result

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Everyone

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

" 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. "

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" Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. "

" My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman. "

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Feel

" My worst quality is impatience. "

" If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. "

" I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. "

" 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

Mind

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" It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter. "

" I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. "

" 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