Itβs about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma ThompsonRead
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
Interpretation
Books can appear in our lives at crucial moments when we need guidance or comfort.
In this quote, Emma Thompson suggests that books, much like people, often come into our lives during times of need. They can provide wisdom, companionship, or reflections that resonate with our current struggles or questions, highlighting the profound connection between human experiences and the written word.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to emphasize the importance of reading in students' lives.
Itβs about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
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.
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.
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.
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.
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
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