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Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
Colin Firth
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Colin Firth
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.
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I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
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