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" L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here. "

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" In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to, in general, slightly like the people you're with. "

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