Quote by Emma Thompson
I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to w

I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson

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I understand what its like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, Shes got her daughter shes got her husband. Yeah, but she hasnt got anyone else. – Emma Thompson

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If you dont 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. – Emma Thompson

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Food
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And its 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 Ive seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why dont we have that here? – Emma Thompson

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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

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See, winners embrace hard work. – Lou Holtz

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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve ones dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. – W. Somerset Maugham

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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