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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Act Around Different Different Ideas
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I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

Head Heady Lot Person
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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Bond Dog Earth Ever
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.
Bad Bad Things Because Enjoy
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Best Better Defined Hypothesis
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I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

Anyone Belonged Birthday Birthday Party
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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

Aggressive Believe Civilized Day
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Father Goods He His
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Adaptive Condemned Correspond Harmless
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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

Definition Evil Good Perceive
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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Because Better Dangerous Dispense
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

About Compete Every Every Man
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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

Ape Between Civilized Found
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Barking Bite Dogs Ever
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We do not take humor seriously enough.

Enough Humor Seriously Take
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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

Acting Any Been Being
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I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

Childhood Consider Development Early
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With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

Been Films Gone Harry
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I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Animals Garden Grew House
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I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Brand Brought Chanel Him
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From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

Became Behaviour Child Even
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I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion, and I love vintage.

Crazy Eclectic Encourages Fashion
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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

About Book Discovered Evolution
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It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

Door Down Every Every Time
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Adapting Circumstances Constantly Course
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I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

About Avoid Become Becoming
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Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

Animals Body Fast Found
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Adaptation Assume Behaviour Caused
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Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

Accused Analogy Animal Behaviour
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
Crime Espionage Fascinated Sort
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There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Aggression Antiquity Bred Evolutionary
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I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

About Eight Got Pairs
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Art Done Gone Harry
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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
Gratitude Owe Parents Patient
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The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Children City Family Flat
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Actor Control Editing Film
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Bad Directors Good Look
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

After Always Get Happy
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Film Life Own Takes
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

Constrained Felt Idea Little
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I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

Am Day Every Every Day
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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Big Big Difference Difference Entertainment
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I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

About Awful Brown Bullied
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It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

About British Describe Experimenting
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

Book Geeky Greatest Harry
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