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" When I was about 21, everyone thought I was about 30. "
Rosamund Pike
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" I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay. "
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" There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter. "
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