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Emma Thompson

"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."

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"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."

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Emma Thompson
"I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments."

Work

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Emma Thompson
"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."

Family

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Emma Thompson
"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."

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Emma Thompson
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."

Effort

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Emma Thompson
"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."

Work

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Emma Thompson
"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."

Life

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Emma Thompson
"A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community."

People

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Emma Thompson
"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."

People

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

Parenting

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Emma Thompson
"But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use."

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Aberjhani

"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."

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Aberjhani

"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."

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Aberjhani

"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."

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Aberjhani

"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."

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Aberjhani

"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."

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Aberjhani

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."

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Aberjhani

"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."

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Aberjhani

"I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences."

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Aberjhani

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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Aberjhani

"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."

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