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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Devil Sometimes Thing Very
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I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.
Anything ICan Might Really
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People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Accountable Change Done Interviews
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Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

Absolutely Know Mental Perhaps
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

Always Autograph Back Bill
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.
Good Off Show ShowOff
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

Born Burst Door Entertainer
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I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

Built Clothes Cut Even
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

Always Been Boundaries Correct
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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

Actor Always Become Famous
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I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.
Being Bit British Comfortable
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I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

Album Anybody Big Bunch
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
Base Bette Davis Everything
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Always Am Any Because
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man Intelligence Good faith Questioned
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I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Before Friends Hobbies Like
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Always Good men Most harm
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Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.
Always Center Know Maternal
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I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Allowed Breadth Flaws Know
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Compelled Damaged How Know
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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Go IThink Maybe Moon
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Adored Family Fascination Me
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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Around Between Childhood Ethiopia
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

About Besides Conservative Constitution
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Art Important Really Risk
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Back Become Complacency Complacent
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Color Drawings Final Make
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Anyone Art Else Make
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Become Borders Face Knows
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I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

Around Die Greeks Love
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Action Claims Countries Down
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

Asking Door Family Join
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Acts Any Appalling Both
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Actually Only Pretend Pretended
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Carries Discourse Even Every
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Acceptable Escape Everything I Think
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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