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" I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug. "
Naomie Harris
Flower
Giving
Me
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" I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. "
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" I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you. "
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" There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men. "
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" I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target. "
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" Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case. "
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" To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful. "
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" What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching. "
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" I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. "
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" I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop. "
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" I was too much of an innocent when I went to university. "
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Too Much
University
Innocent
" I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. "
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Leaving
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" I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person! "
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Street
Real
" I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl. "
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Think
Play
" I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day. "
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Amazing
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" I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it. "
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Think
Face
Love
" Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed. "
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Health
Interesting
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" I love Africa. "
Naomie Harris
Love
Africa
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" When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week. "
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" I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond. "
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Bond
Love
Daniel
" At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. "
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Work
Competitive
Culture
" I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people. "
Naomie Harris
People
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Black
" For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out. "
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People
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Someone
" The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know? "
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Environment
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" I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art. "
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Driver
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Art
" I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate. "
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Think
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" Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you. "
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Human
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" I love doing a film with a new bunch of people. "
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Bunch
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" When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. "
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Me
Sister
Children
" We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread. "
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Eat
Time
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" As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it. "
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People
Should
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