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" The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. "
Gwendoline Christie
Existence
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" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
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" I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth. "
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" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "
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" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
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" I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe. "
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" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
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" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "
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" 'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack. "
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" Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms. "
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" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "
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" Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. "
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" I've always been able to look very different very easily. "
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" Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with. "
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" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "
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" Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. "
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" I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug. "
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" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
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