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" In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.' "
David Thewlis
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" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "
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" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "
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" The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that. "
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" I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' "
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