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" There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't. "

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" The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action. "

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