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"He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore."
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"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."

"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."

"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."

"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
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"Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together."
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