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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.

Ben Kingsley

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  That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

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  You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

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  Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.

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  I hope I’m able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I’m reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That’s what I’d like to do.

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  Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

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