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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.
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Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
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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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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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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.
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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
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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.
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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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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
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