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" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
Gwendoline Christie
Sense
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" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
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" I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
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" I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious. "
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" Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling. "
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" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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" I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth. "
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" Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with. "
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" The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious. "
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" What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance. "
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" 'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack. "
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" I've always been able to look very different very easily. "
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" The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. "
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" There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people. "
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" I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. "
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" It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. "
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" I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal. "
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" Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. "
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You
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" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
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" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
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" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "
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" I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe. "
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