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

Hugh Laurie

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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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There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor.
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I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
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Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.
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It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
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She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.
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