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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Kristin Scott Thomas
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 24
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My children are lovely. They're perfect.
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There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
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At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.
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Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.
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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.
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I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
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