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" I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night. "
Francesca Annis
Easily
Hours
I Can
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" Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? "
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" An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. "
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" I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic. "
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" I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. "
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" I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently. "
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" I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting. "
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" My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything. "
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" I'm an actress, not a pinup. "
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" I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it. "
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" It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time. "
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" I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. "
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" I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time. "
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" I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. "
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" I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation. "
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" I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap. "
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" In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. "
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Men
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Admire
" I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring. "
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" I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. "
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" Having children with someone is the real bond. "
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" Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s. "
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Each
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Could
" The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time. "
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Hair
Look
Time
" We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much. "
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Age
Good
Know
" The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband. "
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Husband
Sad
Own
" The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it. "
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First
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You
" My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time. "
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Mother
Him
" I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol. "
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" I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. "
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I Can
Myself
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