Itβs about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma ThompsonRead
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
Interpretation
Aging should be embraced with honesty and grace, encouraging a positive perspective on getting older.
This quote by Emma Thompson emphasizes the importance of approaching aging with authenticity and dignity. By doing so, we not only enhance our own experience but also inspire others to view aging positively, creating an atmosphere where getting older is celebrated rather than feared. The message encourages a transformation in mindset around age, suggesting that gracefulness and honesty about oneself can make the process attractive and desirable.
In practice
During an interview about perceptions of aging, I might quote Emma Thompson to highlight the beauty in growing older.
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.
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.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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