It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma ThompsonRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the contrast between a glamorous public persona and a more grounded, home-centered reality.
Emma Thompson reflects on the duality of her existence, where she occasionally dons elegant dresses and embodies a glamorous character in a professional context, but emphasizes that her true self is rooted in a domestic life filled with intensity and warmth. This juxtaposition illustrates how public appearances can differ vastly from private realities, emphasizing the importance of home and personal relationships over superficiality.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a speech about the importance of authenticity in a world focused on appearances.
It’s 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.
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
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.
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.
I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.
And life 's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
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