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" I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.' "

Simon Beaufoy

Doing

Deep

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Money

Motivation

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Simon Beaufoy

Uncle

Wedding

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