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They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

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Hugh Laurie
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 11
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James Hugh Calum Laurie
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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
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Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.
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You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
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Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
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Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.
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Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.
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It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.
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Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless
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To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
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I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.
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