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I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 26
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My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.
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My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
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