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" When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result. "

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" 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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" Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. "

" 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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" The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town. "

" 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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" The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not. "

" And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here? "

" 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. "

" What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together. "

" I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. "

" 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. "

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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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" London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared. "

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" My worst quality is impatience. "

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