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" I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day. "
Talulah Riley
Every Day
Love
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" I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless. "
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" I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago. "
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" I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die. "
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" Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like. "
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" Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset. "
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" 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message. "
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" Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline. "
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" I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it. "
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" I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie. "
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" Men are visual creatures. "
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" I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends. "
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" My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth. "
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" I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s. "
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" The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be. "
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" I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect. "
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" Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game. "
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" I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything. "
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" I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week. "
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" My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak. "
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" The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me. "
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" I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized. "
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