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If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

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Emily Blunt
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: February 23
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Wandsworth Town
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt
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