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In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

Elizabeth McGovern