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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.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
Actor
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Hong Kong SAR
China
Romola Sadie Garai
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I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
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I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
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I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.
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When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.
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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
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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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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.
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My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.
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