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" I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. "
Naomie Harris
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" It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. "
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" I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl. "
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" I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that. "
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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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" The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't. "
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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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" You don't need to follow trends to be stylish. "
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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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" I love Africa. "
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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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" 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 really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond. "
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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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" As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it. "
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" 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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" Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing. "
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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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" Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have. "
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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 cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug. "
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" I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer. "
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" 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. "
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