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" Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there. "
Stellan Skarsgard
Educated
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" It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly. "
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" I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. "
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" I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position. "
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" My father used to stress that he valued us all as individuals, but that no one in the world was worth more or less than anyone else. This was a good principle to establish in a large family. "
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