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" When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.' "
Gemma Arterton
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" I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away. "
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