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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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"I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie."

"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."

"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."

"I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that."

"I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident."

"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."

"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."

"I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means."
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"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."

"I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments."

"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."

"One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor."

"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."

"I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive."

"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."

"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."
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