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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever. Alicia Vikander

Work Mom Me People Whatever Okay Eye Characters Find About Both Like Read Always How Still Intelligent Send Conversations Interesting Scripts Them Included Dad

I don't have the best feet. Alicia Vikander

Best Feet

This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for. Alicia Vikander

You Made Somewhere Wish Country Worldwide Insane Recognition Brought Small Small Country Could Like Got Spread Up Festival Just Biggest Biggest Thing Swedish Film Film Festival Thing

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish. Alicia Vikander

Fact Finnish Real Quarter In Fact

I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change. Alicia Vikander

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We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window. Alicia Vikander

Needs Out Window Shame Go Bodies Body Compare

I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, 'I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.' Alicia Vikander

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That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people. Alicia Vikander

Yourself People Girl Other Tell Stop Want Comparing Thing

In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you. Alicia Vikander

You Emotions Try License Go Normally Get Keep Film Away

Working makes me happy, makes me calm. Alicia Vikander

Me Happy Calm Makes Working

My dad has children by four different mothers. Alicia Vikander

Mothers Children Different Dad Four

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really. Alicia Vikander

Editing Very Process Interested Really Aspects Film-Making

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen. Alicia Vikander

Love Not Knowing On-Screen Favourite Seeing About Outside Like Meryl Meryl Streep Knowing She Up Screen Little Who Actor Actress Playing

For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else. Alicia Vikander

Events Nothing Else Bit Pencil Eyebrow Normally Lipstick Might Use

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. Alva Myrdal

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. Alva Myrdal

Science Resources Purposes Practically Does Intellectual Trained Just Being Happen

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. Alva Myrdal

Oppression Own Systems Citizens More More And More Part Countries Concentration Becoming Prisons Persecute Camps Them Intern Many

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament. Alva Myrdal

Cause Must Promote More Disarmament Terms Concrete Done Order

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. Alva Myrdal

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