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" I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to! "
Ciaran Hinds
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" I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity. "
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