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I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
Romola Garai
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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
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I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
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