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" My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. "

Emmanuelle Beart

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" We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was. "

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