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• But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

  Felicity Jones

  Appreciate, Expectations, Would Be

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

  Felicity Jones

  Girl, Boys, Firsts

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

  Felicity Jones

  People, Together, Affair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

  Felicity Jones

  Men, Want, Position

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

  Felicity Jones

  Wine, Beer, Wine Love

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Running, Cousin

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

  Felicity Jones

  Taken, Sometimes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

  Felicity Jones

  Family And Friends, My Friends

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

  Felicity Jones

  Missing, Important, My Best Friend

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

  Felicity Jones

  Cheating, Thinking, Infidelity

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

  Felicity Jones

  Running, Cousin, Brother

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Extroverts, Saws

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

  Felicity Jones

  Lucky, Able, Film

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I hate it when, in films, the girl looks perfect in every shot. It's quite nice if there's a bit of dark circles underneath the eyes, if we see the reality of the situation that the person is going through.

  Felicity Jones

  Girl, Hate, Nice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

  Felicity Jones

  Rehearsal, Filmmaking, Approach

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

  Felicity Jones

  Agents, Able, Actresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• "The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being in love with someone who I think made very high demands from her.

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  Being In Love, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt like a different technique. We were very true to the lines, and there was something quite formal and almost theatrical about it.

  Felicity Jones

  Technique, Different, Done

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible. I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends. I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

  Felicity Jones

  Missing, Balance, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

  Felicity Jones

  Fighting, Brain, Fighter

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."

  Felicity Jones

  Book, Hard Times, Trying

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Determination, Parent

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

  Felicity Jones

  Strong, Team, Book

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I always had a very strong sense of independence.

  Felicity Jones

  Strong, Independence, Very Strong

  Source: www.glamour.com

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