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With Any Kind Of Artistic Thing, It's A Muscle, Like Any Athlete, And The Moment You're Not Doing It, You Lose All Confidence. That's Why I'm Terrible With Down Time.

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With Any Kind Of Artistic Thing, It's A Muscle, Like Any Athlete, And The Moment You're Not Doing It, You Lose All Confidence. That's Why I'm Terrible With Down Time.

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I Think It's Useful, As A Famous Person, To Have As Little Separation Between The Perception Of You And How You Really Are - Because Otherwise I'd Be Sitting Here Thinking I'm Keeping Secrets, And Wondering When You're Going To Find Out.

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I Don't Really Care About How I Look.

I Don't Think There's Anything That I Would Really Baulk At Doing On-screen. I Don't Think So. I've Got Certain Pet Peeves About Writing... My Pet Peeve About Reading Scripts Is When They Give You A Line Reading And There'll Be A Line But Next To Your Character's Name It'll Say 'very Angry'. But I'm Like: "well, I'll Decide That Actually!" So, There's Little Things Like That. That's A Slight Pet Peeve.

I Was Worried On A Personal Level Because I Wanted To Be Slightly Taller Than I Am, Ideally. But I've Now Accepted It. Basically, I Came To The Conclusion A While Ago That You Can Either Be Really Bitter About It Or You Can Make Loads Of Funny Jokes.

I Definitely Want To Go On Acting For As Long As I Can Find Employment. I'm Never Happier Than When I'm On A Film Set. I Just Want To Keep Working.

I Think Any Actor Worth Their Salt Wants To Show As Much Versatility As They Possibly Can.

All It Takes Is For Me To Be Seen Chatting Up A Girl For [tabloids] To, You Know, Make Up Some Crappy Headline About Me Being A Sex Rat Or Whatever They Call It.

In Terms Of Drama School, What That Will Give You That You Won't Necessarily Learn On A Film Set Is The Technical Ability - Ie, Projecting Your Voice And Stage Craft.

I Certainly Want To Establish Myself As An Actor In My Own Right, Rather Than Being Just The Actor Who Plays Harry Potter.

I Think Of Myself As Being Jewish And Irish, Despite The Fact That I'm English.

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I'm Not Too Worried About Humanity In The Future. I Think We've Got An Innate Ability As A Species To Self-correct.

Some People Are Asking Me Questions Like This Is A More Shocking Subject, Which Is So Strange.

A Gay Murder Movie Is Never Going To Be, Like, Breaking Box Office Records.

I Mean I've Seen 3d Films So Far And I Think It's A Long Way To Go Before They Replace Actors. It's A Funny Thing With 3d, I Haven't Quite Got It Yet. Yet.

Being Self-critical Is Good; Being Self-hating Is Destructive. There's A Very Fine Line There Somewhere, And I Walk It Carefully.

I Don't Know Where My Romanticism Comes From. My Mom And Dad Would Read To Me A Lot. 'treasure Island,' 'robinson Crusoe,' Tales Of Chivalry And Knights, Things Like That. Those Are The Stories I Loved Growing Up.

I Feel Like My Evolution Has Come To A Place Where Now I'm Attached To Crazy Rich Asians.

I Just Got Asked By Another Journalist 'are You A Feminist?' And I Was Just Like... Is There A Strange Thing At The Moment Where You Have To Come Out As A Feminist? I've Been Asked If I'm A Feminist So Many Times Recently, And I'm Just Like 'yes, Yes, For God's Sake, Yes! Is There Something That I Give Off That Says I'm Not?'

The Idea The Actors Are The Most Important People On A Film Set I Think Is Very Stupid. Actors Are The Most Replaceable People There. There Are Literally Millions Of Us. There's Very Few People That Can Operate A Steady-cam. The Numbers Are A Lot, Lot Fewer For That, You Know?

I Am A Frighteningly Thorough Person.

When You Get As Lucky As I Got, You Have To Work As Hard As Possible To Earn That Luck.

I Just Have This Fear That I'll Get On Stage And There'll Be That Brief Moment Of Adrenalin And I'll Forget My Line.

I'm An Atheist, But I'm Very Relaxed About It. I Don't Preach My Atheism, But I Have A Huge Amount Of Respect For People Like Richard Dawkins Who Do.

I Don't Think That You Necessarily Need A Certain Type Of Background To Take On Roles. You See Actors From Very, Very Privileged Backgrounds Playing Working Class Characters And Vice-versa. I Don't Think Your Background Limits You As To What You Can Do.

I Would Consider Doing Any Part As Long As The Script Is Good And The Film Has An Interesting Director.

When You're Seventeen To Early Twenties, That's The Time You're Trying To Work Out Who You Are. If You're Trying To Make Some Kind Of Artistic Or Creative Impact, That's The Age When You Start To Figure Out How To Do That.

The One Piece Of Advice I Would Give To Any Actor Is, If You Want To Go Out On The Street Without Being Recognised, Without Even Being Looked At, Go Out With A 6ft 8in Beautiful Transsexual. No One Gives You A Second Glance. Especially When You're 5ft 5in.

We Sing A Lot Of The Soundtrack In This Film [swiss Army Man] - Me And Paul Dano - And On The Last Day Of Filming We Had To Just Get Into The Back Of Our Sound Mixer's Van And Record A Really Crappy, Rough Version Of The Singing Then. For Some Reason That Was One Of The Most Fun Days.

I Think I Tried To Steal A Mars Bar Once From A Shop But Then I Went And Put It Back.

I Wasn't The Most Popular Kid In School.

I Thought I Was An Actor Playing A Wizard. But Really, I Was A Wizard Playing An Actor.

The Nerds Are The Ones That Make The Films And Do Loads Of Other Really Cool Stuff In Their Life.

My Parents Were What I Like To Call Proper Musical Fans. Lots Of Sondheim Was Played In The Car.

A Hero Is Also Someone Who, In Their Day To Day Interactions With The World, Despite All The Pain, Uncertainty And Doubt That Can Plague Us, Is Resiliently And Unashamedly Themselves. If You Can Wake Up Every Day And Be Emotionally Open And Honest Regardless Of What You Get Back From The World Then You Can Be The Hero Of Your Own Story. Each And Every Person Who Can Say That Despite Life’s Various Buffetings That They Are Proud To Be The Person They Are Is A Hero.

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To Be Fair, It's Not Even The First Time I've Seen A Dead Version Of Myself. There Was One On Harry Potter, On The Last Movie, That They Actually Used To Bring To Set In A Body Bag.

I Think, As An Actor, And Particularly If You Are Playing The Lead In Something, You Have To View Yourself As The Head Of Department For The Cast. All Of The Other Departments Are Accountable And Have Somebody At The Helm Who Is Leading Them All The Time, And I Don't Think That The Actors Should Be Any Different.

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This Is Only Going To Add Fuel To The Fire That I'm Gay. I Don't Really Care. I'm So Past The Point Of Caring. I Really Don't. But I Looked Fantastic In Fleur's Outfit!

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The Art World Can Be Very Intimidating Because It's Just So Vast. You Talk To People Who Are Really Clued In To All The Young Artists And Coming Into It You're Never Going To Be Able To Catch Up Immediately, Even Though There's Pressure To.

The Stories I'm Interested In Are Challenging Ones, And Maybe That Requires A Little Bit More Of You. I Love My Job And I Want To Earn The Right To Do It Every Single Day.

Yes, Gay Marriage Is About Symbolically Blessing A Relationship, But The Larger Issue Is About Transmitting A Fundamental Message About Equality. Gay People Should Have Equality In Law Everywhere.

I Think It Was Pretty Obvious Early On That We Had Both Come With Kind Of The Same Attitude Of "let's Just [jump] In," And Neither Of Us Was Going To Be Precious About It. I Feel Like The Thing That We Learned Is, Weirdly, The Most Intimate Thing Or A Very Intimate Thing You Can Do To Somebody Is Hold Their Tongue With Your Fingers. When Paul [dano] Is Making Me Talk [in Swiss Army Man].

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My Dad Grew Up In Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Desperate To Get To London. I Grew Up In London, So I Don't Know What It's Like To Yearn For The Big City From A Small Town.

No. I Can Quite Happily Say Someone Is Handsome, Good-looking, And I Can See Why Someone Would Want To F**k Them, But I've Never Felt That Way About A Man Myself. There Is That Moment In Your Late Teens When You Ask Yourself The Question, 'am I?' But I Wasn'twell, This Year I Have A Talent Crush On Ryan Gosling. I Think He's Fantastic And(ahem) You Know He'd Be Nice Afterwards. He Seems Smart. If I Was Gay, I Would Go For A Smart Man.

Part Of An Actor's Job Is To Find Correlations Between Your Own Life And The Life Of The Person You Are Playing.

I'm Somebody Who Is Very, Very Proud To Have Been A Part Of The British Film Industry All My Life And To Have Kind Of Been Involved With A Very Important Piece Of British Film History.

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I've Been Working Since I Was 9, And I've Never Known A Life Without A Film Set.

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I'll Miss Some Of The Opportunities That Playing Harry [potter] Brought Me.

I Know I'm Not A Coal Miner, But I Do Long Hours And I Never Complain, And There Is Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be. So, Yeah, That's How I'd Define Myself. I Want To Do It Right, And Prove People Wrong Once And For All About The Myth Of Child Stars.

There Is Always This Thing Of Will You Get Too Old For Your Part? But People Are Playing A Lot Younger Than They Actually Are In Real Life. I Don't Think It's As Big An Issue As A Lot Of People Are Making It Out To Be.

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There's Never Enough Time To Do Nothing!

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I Think One Of My Favorite Things To Do Is Just Lock Myself Up In A Small Room And Listen To Music And Watch Films For A Day. Also I Just Like Seeing My Friends. We Have Pizza Parties Which Means I Get Four Friends Round, We Eat A Pizza And We're Really Lazy And We Play Playstation.

I Think Any Man Who Says He Has Never Had An Awkward Moment With A Girl, Is A Liar Or He's Delusional Because He's Sitting There Thinking He Is Doing Really Well And The Girl Is Thinking "who Is This Man And Why Is He Talking To Me?"

I Like The Idea Of Being A Youngish Parent. So I've Got Energy To Play Football Even Though They'll Be Better Than Me By The Time They're Four.

I'm A Huge Fan Of Brad Pitt. He Could Have Done Rom-coms His Entire Career, But He Took It In A Different Direction.

I'll Say American For Now. I Really Have No Preference, Though. Nationality Is Nothing. It's All About The Girl - But She Has To Be Curvy!

People Tell Me I Look Mournful. They Say, "cheer Up, Dan, It's Not That Bad!" Sometimes, I Just Look Into Space, Which Freaks People Out. If I Was Ever Required To Do Anything Other Than Look Haunted, I Could. I'm A Happy Person.

Both Of My Parents Have Been Actors; There Were A Lot Of Show Tunes On In The Car All Of The Time. I Grew Up With That.

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My Mom And Dad Were Actors When They Were Younger And Had A Horrible Experience Of It. My Dad Became A Literary Agent And My Mom A Casting Director.

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Fame Is Damaging When People Become Reliant On It For Their Sense Of Self, And Their Identity, When Fame Is Linked To How You See Yourself.

It's Interesting For Myself, Growing Up As An Asian-american Filmmaker. Coming Into The Industry, My Parents Always Said, "no One's Going To Give You The Opportunity. You Just Have To Do The Work. Be Better Than Everyone Else, So They Can't Deny It."

I Would Love To Work In America. I Wouldn't Love To Live There, But I'd Love To Experience Working There.

I Definitely Think The Idea Of Friend Zone Is Just Men Going, 'this Woman Won't Have Sex With Me.'

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I'm Certainly Lucky To Have Got Famous Through Something That Was So Well Liked, Generally Speaking.

I Suppose Whenever You Go Through Periods Of Transition, Or In A Way, It's A Very Definite Closing Of A Certain Chapter Of Your Life. I Suppose Those Times Are Always Going To Be Both Very Upsetting And Also Very Exciting By The Very Nature Because Things Are Changing And You Don't Know What's Going To Happen.

My Parents Are Left-wing, And I Would Describe Myself As That. But Also, You Know What? I Wouldn't Describe Myself As That. Because I Don't Have To. Because I'm Not A Political Party. Most People Are A Little Bit Of Each, And We Change Our Mind On Various Issues.

I'm Possibly A Very Morbid Person But I Think About Death A Lot.

With Any Kind Of Artistic Thing, It's A Muscle, Like Any Athlete, And The Moment You're Not Doing It, You Lose All Confidence. That's Why I'm Terrible With Down Time.

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I'm Very Proud Of Being Jewish. It Means I Have A Good Work Ethic, And You Get Jewish Humour And You're Allowed To Tell Jewish Jokes.

I Was In The Bath At The Time, And My Dad Came Running In And Said, 'guess Who They Want To Play Harry Potter!?' And I Started To Cry. It Was Probably The Best Moment Of My Life.

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Working Hard Is Important. But There Is Something That Matters Even More, Believing In Yourself.

I've Always Had Philosophy, Which Has Been Really Helpful For Me, Getting Into The Business. I Didn't Have Any Connections. I Didn't Know Anyone. It Was Just About My Work.

There's A Lot Of Work That Needs To Be Done, And There's A Difference Between Talking The Talk And Walking The Walk.

I Think I Have Just Always Had An Awareness That When You Go To A Premiere And People Start Cheering And Shouting Your Name And Stuff, They Are Shouting At A Perception Of You That They Have.

It's Important To Say That The More Challenging A Scene Is, In A Way, The More Fun It Is Because The More Of My Job I Get To Do.

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I Think Part Of Me Would Love To Play A Drag Queen, Just Because It Would Be An Excuse To Wear Loads Of Eye Makeup.

And I'm Slightly In Love With Scarlett Johansson: She's Just Stunning. And She's Bright, Which Is Incredibly Sexy.

Some Actresses Are Just Insane. I've Never Worked With A Nasty Actress - They're All Absolutely Delightful. But Completely Barking.

I Think It Speaks To The Fact That Other People Are As Excited About Originality As We Are. I Think The Thing That Has Been Wonderfully Communicated In The Trailers And All The Promotion For The Movie [swiss Army Man] Is That It Isn't Like Anything Else You've Ever Seen, And We're Not Just Saying That. I Think That Excites People.

As An Actor, There Is Room For A Certain Amount Of Creativity, But You're Always Ultimately Going To Be Saying Somebody Else's Words. I Don't Think I'd Have The Stamina, Skill Or Ability To Write A Novel, But I'd Love To Write Short Stories And Poetry, Because Those Are My Two Passions.

I Meet Hundreds Of People, And I'm Not Going To Remember Them. But Every Single One Of Them Will Remember Their Interaction With Me.

There's An Incredible Comfort Level That I Have On Film Sets Because It's Where I've Grown Up.

Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

I Google Myself To See What Come Up When You Google Daniel Radcliffe Because That's Always Amusing.

I Think That The Process Of Making A Film Is An Underrated Factor In How That Film Turns Out.

I Always Feel That If You Put Me In A Room With A Director And A Writer And Let Me Talk About The Script, I Can Give A Good Account Of Myself.

I'm Very Interested In Religion As Something To Study, But I'm Not A Religious Person In The Slightest.

I Just Want To Keep Working, Really. I Just Want To Keep Acting. Playing One Part For A Very Long Time Builds Up In You A Desire To Play As Many Different Things As You Can.

Dane Dehaan, Certainly, Is Kind Of The Best Friend I've Made Through Acting, In Terms Of Another Actor. He's Fantastic.

Those Things [t Hydraulic Penises And Prosthetic Butts And All That] Can Be What's Genuinely Shocking About The Movie [swiss Army Man] Because People Wouldn't Expect To Be Moved By Any Of It.

I'm Not Much Of A Cake Person.

I Don't [believe In God]. I Have A Problem With Religion Or Anything Else That Says, 'we Have All The Answers,' Because There's No Such Thing As 'the Answers.' We're Complex. We Change Our Minds On Issues All The Time. Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

There's No Shame In Enjoying A Quiet Life. And That's Been The Realization Of The Past Few Years For Me.

I Don't Want Anyone To Ever Say That I Don't Belong Where I Am.

A Friend Often Says I'm An Old Man In A Young Man's Husk. I Like That. I Am Old-fashioned In Some Ways.

I'm Not A Religious Person. My Mom Was Of Jewish Blood And My Dad Was Protestant.

I Get Constantly Mistaken For Elijah Wood. I Was In Japan And Someone Held Out A Photo Of Him For Me To Sign.

I'm Not Clean Or Even Vaguely Pleasant To Be Around In A Domestic Situation.

Normally I Sit There In The Films Really Hating Watching Myself. Loving Watching The Films, Hating Watching Myself.

I Want To Write And Direct, But I Don't Think If I Did It For 100 Years I Would Ever Come Close To Putting Something Out There That Gives A Feeling Of All-encompassing And Joyous.

Go Boldly And Honestly Through The World. Learn To Love The Fact That There Is Nobody Else Quite Like You.

A Lot Of Modern Horror Can Leave Me Cold, And I'm Not Good With Blood And Gore And All That Stuff. It's Not Fun For Me. There's Nothing Entertaining About Watching A Film Like That.

If You Like The Book, You'll Hate The Movie.

I Like Science And I Love Gym. Oh, And I Like Art, But I'm Really Bad At It. I'm Just A Terrible Drawer. I Can't Draw A Circle. Even With A Ruler, I Can't Draw A Straight Line.

Everyone On The Set Has A Mobile Phone, And I Found By Pushing A Few Buttons, They Could Be Programmed Into Different Languages. I Fixed Robbie's Coltrane To Speak In Turkish.

I Don't Know What To Do With It. I'm Very Fortunate To Have It, And It Gives You Room To Maneuver. But The Main Thing About Having Money Is It Means You Don't Have To Worry About It. And That For Me Is A Lovely Thing. It's Not For Fast Cars And Hookers.

The Thought Of Dancing Scared Me. A Lot. Because I Have Absolutely No Aptitude For It.

For Ages, In My Lunch Hours, I Would Just Go Round And Choreograph Fight Scenes. For Fun. So Now I'm Very Good At Being Thrown Around. I Bounce, In The Words Of My Friends.

Acting Is Really Instinctual And I Think You Can Overanalyse What You're Doing. A Lot Of It Has To Be Based On Instinct.

Some People Think I Am Gay, Which I Think Is Awesome.

There Were A Few Years There When I Was Just So Enamored With The Idea Of Living Some Sort Of Famous Person's Lifestyle That Really Isn't Suited To Me.

Obviously, I've Been Very Lucky In General In My Career, But I Feel That I've Been Very Lucky In Terms Of Having Directors Come Along At The Right Times Who Have Taken Me To The Next Level Of Where I Needed To Be.

To The Children Who Loved Harry Potter, I Want To Say Your Enthusiasm Was The Real Magic. I So Enjoyed Being On The Journey With You. And To The Adults Who Bought The Harry Potter Books And Devoured Them, I Just Want To Say, Those Books Were For Children.

Poetry Is Something I Love To Do. Good Poetry Has An Amazing Ability To Be Communicative Before It's Even Understood. I Get Emotional Just From The Beauty Of Words.

If You Spent A Proper Amount Of Time With Me, You Would Probably Wonder If I Was On Drugs - I'm Not. I'm Just Incredibly Hyperactive And Manic. I Can Be Quiet And Serious At The Same Time.

Every Day The Daniels [kwan And Scheinert] Would Come Up With Some Amazing Solution And [make It Easy] To Put Yourself In Their Hands. There's Something Really Lovely About Knowing You're Working With Directors Who Know Exactly What They Want And Exactly What They're Looking For, And They're Not Going To Move On Until They Have It. That, As An Actor, Frees You Up A Lot Because You Can [try Different Approaches] And They'll Only Use What's Appropriate.

If I Can Make A Career For Myself After Harry Potter, And It Goes Well, And Is Varied And With Longevity, Then That Puts To Bed The 'child Actors Argument'.

I Remember Paul [dano] Had Said At One Point That When He Finished This Film [swiss Army Man] Was The Strongest He'd Ever Been Just From Lugging Me Around For [several] Weeks.

Sometimes You Can't Help But Pay Attention To What Is Written About You. You Are Trying Not To Because It's Generally Not Constructive, It Can Be Very Funny, In Which Case It's Fine To Pay Attention To It If You're Going To Laugh About It. But If It's Going To Get You Angry Then It's A Pretty Pointless Waste Of Energy, So I Try And Be Selective About What I Take An Interest In About Myself.

When Actors Aren't Filming They Just Go To Their Dressing Rooms And Relax.

My Dad Believes In God, I Think. I'm Not Sure If My Mom Does. I Don't.

I'm Possibly A Very Morbid Person But I Think About Death A Lot. I Don't Know If It's Maybe From Being On Films That's Often Playing Harry [potter] Or I Just Think It's A Natural Thing That I Have. It's Something That I Think About Just Because It's Fascinating In A Very Alien Kind Of Way.

You Never Want To Be Forced To Do Something. But The World Around You Starts To Influence You In Ways You Never Expected.

I Used To Joke I Was A Point-and-click Actor. My Whole Process Has Been About Trusting Your Instincts And Hitting Your Mark.

I Would Like To Initiate An Initiative - The Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

I Have Quite A Rich Inner Life, And I'm Constantly Looking For A Way To Express That. I Haven't Found It Yet In Acting. When You're Playing A Character, You're Only Going To Find Outlets For Very Specific Parts Of Your Inner World.

The Most Wonderful Thing I Hear Is People Coming Up And Saying 'thank You For My Childhood', Which Still Blows My Mind But Is Very Sweet.

I Take Things In Better When I'm Allowed To Talk, And Respond, And Engage And Move Around A Bit.

'insane Farting Corpse' Is A Really Hard Movie To Do A Q&a For. The Audience Is Still Kind Of Reeling And Being Like, "i Don't Know What To Ask."

I'd Love To Play Puck In 'a Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I Love Just Going Out And Sitting Down In The Park Along With The Thousands Of Other People Who Apparently Have No Work To Do During The Day. People Come Up To Me, But They Are Generally Really Nice. New York Makes It Easier, For Me At Least. People Manage To Be Enthusiastic And Sort Of Sane At The Same Time. And That’s Lovely.

In My Experience Of Doing Physical Scenes, Half Of Your Energy Is Spent On Trying To Get The Other Actor To Enter Into It Physically With You. Most Actors Don't Want To Hurt Each Other.

I Think It's Kind Of Great, To Be Honest. I'll Never Do Another Film [like Swiss Army Man] Where I Get To Talk About Those Things, So I Might As Well Enjoy It While I Can.

[i] Take Inspiration From Kids. ... They're Very Honest In How They Act And How They Are In The World.

Who Are The Executives, And What Are The Stories That Are Being Released? Not Just In Movie Theaters But Online. When You Watch Master Of None, You're Like, Yes, This Is Real Life To Me. These Are Refreshing Types Of Stories.

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