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When I'm At Our House In France I Totally Cut Myself Off From The Rest Of The World. I Never Have To Listen To Phones Ringing And That's Because - And Vanessa Would Confirm This - Phones Are Banned From The House. We Have A Beautiful Life And I Feel That Spending Time In France Has Just Calmed Me Down And Made Me Stop Worrying About Things Which Aren't Really Important.

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When I'm At Our House In France I Totally Cut Myself Off From The Rest Of The World. I Never Have To Listen To Phones Ringing And That's Because - And Vanessa Would Confirm This - Phones Are Banned From The House. We Have A Beautiful Life And I Feel That Spending Time In France Has Just Calmed Me Down And Made Me Stop Worrying About Things Which Aren't Really Important.

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And Because Technology Is Moving So Rapidly, Things Become Obsolete Very, Very Quickly. In 15 Years Time, Will Caster Is Probably Going To Be In Some Weird Room In Vegas Where People Are Plugging Quarters Into Him. Who Has A Mini-disc Of A Laser Disc Player? It's Over!

Any Man Who Had To Carry A Child Would Cave In Around Month Two.

I Found The Evil In Myself A Long Time Ago, And I've Accepted It. We're Old Friends.

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I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.

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I Am An American. I Love My Country And Have Great Hopes For It. It Is For This Reason That I Speak Candidly And Sometimes Critically About It. I Have Benefited Greatly From The Freedom That Exists In My Country And For This I Am Eternally Grateful.

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I Actually Did Do A Musical Many Years Ago With John Waters Called Cry-baby, But Technically It Was Only Half Me - It Wasn't Me Singing. Tim's [ Burton] The Only Person Brave Enough To Actually Let Me Try To Sing.

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Everything Here Is Edible; Even I'm Edible. But That, Dear Children, Is Cannibalism, And Is In Fact Frowned Upon In Most Societies.

Every Filmmaker's Different, Every Filmmaker Has A Different Approach.

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There's No Truth Anymore.

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I Remember In That Red Leisure Suit I Sort Of Felt Like A Pizza Hut Employee, And The White One Was The Ultimate, With The White Turtleneck Collar, That Was The Ultimate In Bad Taste.

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Not Being Well-versed In That Arena Myself, It's A Little Bit Frightening Because I'm Not Very Good In Those Situations With Lots Of People And Lots Of Famous People And Cameras And All Of That. It's Not My Specialty.

Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive.

An Actor Shouldn't Have To Leave The Set And Go Home And Write A Bunch Of Stuff For A Bunch Of Other People, The Next Day. I Found It Very Unpleasant.

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I Am Doing Things That Are True To Me. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

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For Me, Ambition Has Become A Dirty Word. I Prefer Hunger. To Be Hungry- Great. To Have Hopes, Dreams- Great.

If Anybody Is Getting Their Ass Handed To Them, It's Not Al [pachino]. It's Coming [toward You]. I'm Psychotic.

I'm A Big Fan Of Revenge, I Think [sweeney Todd] It's A Story Of A Man Who Clearly Has Obsessions To Avenge The Horror That Happened To Him.

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You Use Your Money To Buy Privacy Because During Most Of Your Life You Aren't Allowed To Be Normal.

Most People Are Really Nuts And That's Fascinating To Me.

Thank God I Never Hooked On Anything. I Never Had A Monkey On My Back. I Just Wanted To Self-medicate, To Numb Myself Through Liquor. It's How I Dealt With Life, Reality, Stress, Change, Sadness, Memories. The List Goes On. I Was Really Trying To Feel Nothing.

America Is Dumb, It's Like A Dumb Puppy That Has Big Teeth That Can Bite And Hurt You, Aggressive. My Daughter Is Four, My Boy Is One. I'd Like Them To See America As A Toy, A Broken Toy. Investigate It A Little, Check It Out, Get This Feeling And Then Get Out.

Not All Treasure Is Silver And Gold, Mate

If There's A Message To Pass To People, I'd Say That It's Normal To Be Different From Others, It's Good To Differ From One Another, And We'd Better Look At Ourselves First Before We Start Criticising Someone Who Looks, Acts, Speaks Different Or Has A Different Skin Colour. I'd Like To Continue, Even At A Minimal Level, What John Lennon Had Started. If I Could Do As Much As A Bit Of What He Did, If I Could Contribute To The Elimination Of Hatred Among Us, That Would Be A Great Deal.

[on Buying A Private Island] Money Doesn't Buy You Happiness, But It Buys You A Big Enough Yacht To Sail Right Up To It.

Interestingly Enough, For Me, A Character Like Captain Jack, You Feel Like You Could Just Continue. The Possibilities Are Endless And Limitless. There Is Any Possibility Of Madness And Absurdity That Could Commence, So You Feel That, With This Character, You're Never Really Done.

I've Never Been Particularly Ambitious. I'm Driven By The Moment.

This Dress Code Should Be Mandatory For Most Events.

One Day, The People That Didn't Believe In You Will Tell Everyone How They Met You.

I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.

While They'd Be Setting Up Shots, Suddenly, There Were 17 Make-up Chicks, Just Listening To Marlon Telling These Amazing Stories That Were Probably Lies. He Was A Fascinating Individual. I Learned A Lot From Him.

I'd Never Even Sung In The Shower, I'm Too Mortified. But Once I Got Over The Initial Fear It Was Kind Of Enjoyable. Sondheim's Melodies And Lyrics Are A Real Pleasure To Tromp Around In, It's Really Beautiful Stuff.

I Guess I'm Attracted To These Off Beat Roles Because My Life Has Been A Bit Abnormal. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.

My Children's Favorite, And It's Funny Because They've Seen It But They Have A Difficult Time Watching It Because It's Their Dad And They Make That Connection, But Edward Scissorhands Is By Far My Kids' Favorite. They Just Connect With The Character, And They See Their Dad Feeling That Isolation, That Loneliness. He's A Tragic Character, So I Think It's Hard For Them. They Bawl.

People Make Great Films. I Just Don't Have The Eyes To Watch Them.

Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.

I Can't Tell My Self That I'm A Serious Actor. But I'm Serious Person.

And It Hurts So Much To Want Something You Can't Have.

Luckily I Am Very, Very Privileged And Feel Very Lucky To Be Getting Work And My Kiddies Are Not Feeling The Brunt Of Any Kind Of Horror That's Going On Today. So I'm Super Lucky.

The Ultimate For Me Would Be To Do A Feature That Didn't Require Any Narrative Structure.

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I Would Give Everything If I Could Only Keep My Family.

If There Is Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different.

Inspirational Celebrity

There Are These Mythic Unicorn-y Tales Of Method Acting, But Marlon [brando] Wanted To Have A Good Time.

As A Child, I Certainly Had A Fascination With Monsters And Vampires.

I've Been Lucky Enough To Work With A Make-up Artist, Joel Harlow, Who You Can Throw Anything At. I Said, "joel, I Need To Go To The London Eye With My Children And I Want To Look Like A Roadie From Lynyrd Skynyrd."

I Just Happen To Be A Sucker For Humor. So Anywhere I Can Sneak In Something That I Find Potentially Interesting Or Funny I Do It As Much As I Can Get Away With.

My Kids, They're My Energy, My Soul, And My Nicest Friend.

If It's Called A Selfie, Why Are There People In It?

When Faced With Two Choices Simply Toss A Coin. It Works Not Because It Settles The Question For You, But Because In That Brief Moment When The Coin Is In The Air, You Suddenly Know What You Are Hoping For. If You Love Two People At The Same Time, Choose The Second One, Because If You Really Loved The First One You Wouldn't Have Fallen For The Second.

Ugliness Is Better Than Beauty. It Lasts Longer And In The End, Gravity Will Get Us All.

Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You

I'm Not Even Born Yet. I'm Still Trying. I'm Still Pushing. I Don't Ever Want To Get To A Place Where I Feel Satisfied.

Tomorrow It'll All Be Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

Out On The Street, You Never Know What You're Getting, And Suddenly Two Days Later You're Beating Yourself In The Head With A Tennis Racket, Wearing A Towel, Quoting Poe. You Don't Want That For Your Kid. You Really Don't Want That.

I've Always Been Frightened Of Karaoke, So I've Never Tried It. Karaoke Scares The Hell Out Of Me!

No One Wants To Go Out Mid-sentence.

[the Huge Success Of Curse Of The Black Pearl] Made Perfect Sense To Me On The One Hand, And At The Same Time, It Made No Sense At All, Which I Kind Of Enjoyed. Even Now, With The Dolls And The Cereal Boxes And Snacks And Fruit Juices, It All Just Feels Fun To Me, In A Warholian Way. It's Absurd. It Doesn't Get More Absurd.

I'd Just Thank The People Out There Who Have Been With My Up-and-down, Weird-road, Strange Career And Supported Me And Stuck With Me All These Years. I Mean, They're My Boss. That's What Keeps Me Working.

If Someone Were To Harm My Family Or A Friend Or Somebody I Love, I Would Eat Them. I Might End Up In Jail For 500 Years, But I Would Eat Them.

It's All Kinds Of These Profound Things Crashing On You When Your Child Arrives Into The World. It's Like You've Met Your Reason To Live.

Things Go Wrong For Me, All The Time, With Technology. I'm Not Familiar Enough With It, And I'm Too Old School A Brain To Be Able To Figure It Out. I'm Dumb. Anything That I Have To Attack With My Thumbs, For Any Period Of Time, Makes Me Feel Stupid. So, I Try To Avoid It, As Much As Possible, To Protect My Thumbs.

There's A Drive In Me That Won't Allow Me To Do Certain Things That Are Easy.

For Me, The Question Was, How Can One Take A Live-action Performance And Put It In The Parameter Of One Of Those Cartoons? How Much Can You Get Away With?

They Say The World Used To Be Bigger. The World's Still The Same--there's Just Less In It.

Kids Accept A Lot More, And They Buy It, Because They're Free.

When I Got The Job, I Was Sure That I Wasn't Going To Get The Job Because Tom Cruise Almost Got The Job.

When You Play A Character That Exists Or Existed, There's A Stronger Responsibility That You Have. You Owe That Person And Then You Owe The Family, You Owe History, You Owe The Victims, The Victims' Families.

My Self-image It Still Isn't That Alright. No Matter How Famous I Am, No Matter How Many People Go To See My Movies, I Still Have The Idea That I'm That Pale No-hoper That I Used To Be. A Pale No-hoper That Happens To Be A Little Lucky Now. Tomorrow It'll Be All Over, Then I'll Have To Go Back To Selling Pens Again.

The Only Responsibility I Feel Is To Deliver Something That's New Or At Least To Attempt That. The Real Responsibility Is To Entertain And To Try And Make People Laugh.

I Really Approached The Film As If It Was A White Big Piece Of Paper And I Was Going To Draw A Picture On It. And Whether That Picture Was Good Or Bad, Whatever People Thought Of It, What They Could Never Take Away Was That It Was My Picture.

They (the People Of Puerto Rico) Are Truly The Sweetest People On Earth.

You Could Make An Analogy To A Security Guard Who, Three Weeks Prior, Was Mowing Lawns For A Living. The Second He Puts A Uniform On And That Badge, He's A Man. I Imagine The Majority Of Us Have Felt The Wrath Of The Over-zealous Security Guard Guy. Is There Something Lying Dormant In The Man, That's Waiting To Be Pumped Up With That Kind Of Power? I Don't Know. Does It Reveal Him? I Don't Know. Does It Change Him? I Don't Know.

I Was Angry And Frustrated Until I Started My Own Family And My First Child Was Born. Until Then I Didn’t Really Appreciate Life The Way I Should Have, But Fortunately I Woke Up.

I May Have A Feather Duster Down My Pants.

The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.

People Will Say A Movie Bombed At The Box Office But I Couldn't Care Less.

There Is Nothing On Earth That Could Ever Make Me Want To Relive Certain Years Of My Life When I Was Young.

I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.

I Think Today We've Gone So Far Technologically And Also Just Emotionally And Psychologically, I Mean There's A Lot Of Crime Out There And There's A Lot Of Stuff Going On. People Don't Care That They're Going To Go To Prison. They Couldn't Give A Rat About The Repercussions. They Go Out And They Do What They Do And They Don't Care About Hurting Anyone Else.

There's The Whole Mad Hatter's Dilemma, It Was The Amount Of Mercury That They Used In The Glue To Make The Hats. Everything Was Damaging. So, In Terms Of The Mad Hatter, Looking At It From That Perspective Of This Guy Who Literally Is Damaged Goods, Physically Damaged, Emotionally A Little Obtuse, And Taking That And Deciding That He Should Be - As Opposed To Just This Hyper, Nutty Guy - He Should Explore All Sides Of The Personality At An Extreme Level.

Am I A Romantic? I've Seen 'wuthering Heights' Ten Times. I'm A Romantic.

I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.

Anything I've Done Up Till May 27th 1999 Was Kind Of An Illusion, Existing Without Living. My Daughter, The Birth Of My Daughter, Gave Me Life.

It's Kind Of Interesting To Experience That Kind Of A Ride After Well, Essentially So Many Years Of Enjoying A Career Based On Failures And Then Suddenly Something Clicks. The Weird Thing Is, I Never Changed A Thing. The Process Is Still The Process As It Ever Was. The Fact That People Decided To Go And See A Movie That I Was In Was Probably The Most Shocking Thing That I've Ever Been Through.

They Said, "you Get $2 Million To Make The Film, If You're Not In It. If You Are In It, You Get $5 Million To Make The Film." There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $2 Million, So I Made It For $5 Million. And Then, It Turned Out There Was No Way To Make The Thing For $5 Million. That's When It Got Weird.

Once You Get On The Ship, Everything Is Fine. Once You Get On Land, Everything Is Not So Fine.

Somehow You've Been Voted Something For A Magazine, And It's A Complete Mystery To Me. I Wake Up And I Have To Look At That Head When I Brush My Teeth Every Morning, You Know. And It's Weird. And It's Unpleasant At Times.

Some Filmmakers Go Into A Film And It's Already Shot And Cut In Their Head.

When You Realize You're Essentially You're God, There Ain't Nothing On Earth More Powerful Than You, You Can Do Anything You Want.

I'm Shy, Paranoid, Whatever Word You Want To Use. I Hate Fame. I've Done Everything I Can To Avoid It.

I Found A Girl, Fell In Love, She Had A Baby, And I Fell In Love Again.

She's Kind Of A Walking Poem, She's This Perfect Beauty...but At The Same Time Very Deep, Very Smart.

You Can't Plan The Kind Of Deep Love That Results In Children. Fatherhood Was Not A Conscious Decision. It Was Part Of The Wonderful Ride I Was On. All The Math Finally Worked.

I Experimented With Drugs And I Experimented With Everything That Little Boys Do - Vandalism, Throwing Eggs At Cars, Breaking And Entering Schools And Destroying A Room. But I Finally Got To A Point Where I Looked Around And Said, "this Is Not Getting Me Anywhere. I'm Stagnating With These Guys." They Were Getting Drunk And High Every Weekend. I Got Out.

I Had Just Had A Daughter, Who Was Three Or Three-and-half Years Old, And I Had Been Watching Nothing But Cartoons. That's Really It. There Was No Youtube. You're In France And You're Raising A Kid, So You Break Out The Tex Avery.

I'm Not A Great Pothead Or Anything Like That... But Weed Is Much, Much Less Dangerous Than Alcohol.

My Recipe For Success Is Chance, Basically. Just Luck. It's A Miracle That People Still Hire Me After Some Of The Stuff I've Gotten Away With. Honestly!

The Challenge For Me Is Still To Do Something That Hasn't Been Beaten Into The Movie Going Consciousness. Otherwise What Am I In It For?

The Weirdest Thing In The World Is To See Some Guy Who Is Just Super Earnest.

Ironically, It Was Only Maybe A Year Prior To Tim Calling I Had Re-read Alice In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass, And What I Took Away From It Was These Very Strange, Little Cryptic Nuggets That He'd Thrown In There.

One Thing That's Been A Great, Uplifting Experience Through All This Is, Since The First "pirates" [movie], The People Who've Gone To See The Films, The Audience Members. You Meet People On The Street - Whether They're 5, 25, 65 Or 85 - They've All Had The Same Experience, And They've All Enjoyed It. So That's What Keeps Me Moving Forward In This Crazy Process.

I Was Poisoning Myself With Alcohol And Medicating Myself. I Was Trying To Numb Things. I Was Trying Not To Feel Things, And That's Ridiculous. It's One Of The Dumbest Things You Can Do, Because All You're Doing Is Postponing The Inevitable. Someday You'll Have To Look All Those Things In The Eye Rather Than Try To Numb The Pain.

My Beef Was With Essentially Being A Product. I Didn't Want To Be A Product, So I Tried To Get Fired, But They Didn't Fire Me, Which Was Weird.

I Was Definitely Never A Crowd Pleaser.

I've Always Enjoyed Hiding Behind These Characters. It's A Strange Thing, You're More Comfortable As A Character Than You Are In Life. I Could Stand Up In Front Of, It Doesn't Matter How Many People, As A Character. But If I Had To Do It As Myself And Give A Speech, I Would Be Liquid.

There Are Necessary Evils. Money Is An Important Thing In Terms Of Representing Freedom In Our World. And Now I Have A Daughter To Think About. It's Really The First Time I've Thought About The Future And What It Could Be.

Marlon Brando Was The Absolute Opposite Of Everything They Told Me He Was Going To Be, Which Is That He Was A Testy Guy Who Wants To Know That He's In Control Of Everything. But, That's Not Who Marlon Was. No Matter What He Did, The Most Important Thing On His Mind Was Justice.

This Is A Rumour-filled Society And If People Want To Sit Around And Talk About Whom I've Dated, Then I'd Say They Have A Lot Of Spare Time And Should Consider Other Topics... Or Masturbation.

If They Let Me Choose Between You And The Dog, I'll Choose The Dog.

My Body Is A Journal In A Way. It's Like What Sailors Used To Do, Where Every Tattoo Meant Something, A Specific Time In Your Life When You Make A Mark On Yourself, Whether You Do It Yourself With A Knife Or With A Professional Tattoo Artist.

Every Relationship Has Problems But When Those Problems Arise You Have To Realise That They Don't Mean Your Relationship Is Broken, It's Just A Little Bent. Bent Things Can Be Fixed And Like So Your Relationship Can Too. The First Step However Is Realising That.

When You Had The Fangs In, You Wanted To Be A Little Bit Careful That You Didn't Actually Pierce The Jugular, Kind Of Like My Experience Shaving Alan Rickman, Which By The Way Neither Of Us Want To Do Again, Especially Alan.

In Terms Of It Being A First Screenplay, Literally, My Hat Is Off To Him [wally Pfister]. I Didn't See Any Virgin Blather In Screen Direction, Or Anything Like That. It Was Just A Wonderfully Executed Piece, And A Complicated One. The Mathematics Involved In Putting This Film Together, Between Jack And Wally, And The Great Support Of Alcon, It Was Not A Easy Little Operetta.

It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.

I Love The Idea Of Changing My Look. I Think One Owes It To The Audience, To Go Out There And Give Them Something Different Each Time, So As Not To Bore Them To Death.

If I Can Avoid The Mirror When I Brush My Teeth In The Morning, I Will. I Find Security And Safety In The Most Profound Degree Of Ignorance. If You Can Just Stay Ignorant Of Almost Everything You'll Be Ok. It's Fine To Stay Informed And Look At Things, But To Judge Things Will Bog You Down.

If You Had To Chose One Half Of Your Son, Which One Would It Be?" What Kind Of A Question Is That?!" No Need To Snap. It Was Just A Question.

My Experience With Sondheim Has Been Nothing But Glorious, Especially For A Guy Who Doesn't Sing.

After Having Been Confined To A Television Series - And It's A Luxury Job - Where You Can't Play Anything But One Particular Character For Nine Months Out Of The Year, It Will Make You Insane. It Didn't Affect Me. I Got Out Quick Enough.

It Really Depends On What The Screenplay Is Asking Of You, And What Your Responsibility Is To That Character. You Have The Author's Intent To Deal With, You Have The Filmmaker's Vision, And Then You Have Your Own Wants, Desires And Needs For The Character. It's Collaborative. But I Knew, Right Off The Bat, That There Was No Way To Go Into Some Sort Of Pink-haired, Clown-nosed Character With Ronald Mcdonald Shoes.

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When You Take On The Idea Of Playing Someone Like Jimmy Bulger, It's A Radically Different Process Because You're Going Into Make-up. The Only Way You Can Do It Is To Come Out Of Make-up Looking Like The Guy. If You Don't Look Like The Guy, It's Going To Bug You, All Day.

Better To Not Know Which Moment May Be Your Last. Every Morsel Of Your Entire Being Alive To The Infinite Mystery Of It All.

I Don't Think Anybody's Necessarily Ready For Death. You Can Only Hope That When It Approaches, You Feel Like You've Said What You Wanted To Say. Nobody Wants To Go Out In Mid-sentence.

As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.

When I Was A Kid, We Watched The Vietnam War On The Six O'clock News, And It Was Desensitizing. You Felt You Were Watching A War Film; Meanwhile You Were Really Watching These Guys Getting Blown To Bits. Parents Need To Protect Their Kids From Watching That Stuff.

You Gotta Be Careful: Don't Say A Word To Nobody About Nothing Anytime Ever.

I Really Love The Experience Of Moving Things Around, In Terms Of Being A Director.

I Did Mostly Alcohol. There Were Drugs, Too - Pills - And There Was A Danger That I Would Go Over The Edge. I Could Have. I Thank God I Didn't.

It's Absolutely Fine When Wile E. Coyote Walks In With A Band-aid On His Head, After A 3,000-pound Rock Is Dropped On Him. That Is What Ed Wood Meant By The Suspension Of Disbelief.

My Body Is My Journal, And My Tattoos Are My Story.

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