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" I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing. "
Matt Smith
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" I've always loved dinosaurs. "
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" I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God. "
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" Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that. "
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" Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them. "
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" No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist. "
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" I used to love ninja movies. That was my thing. "
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