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Argentinian - Actress Born: April 16, 1996

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

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Mind Happen Something Going

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

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Look Go Woods Witches

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

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Me Poetry World Modeling

I swear like a sailor.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Like Sailor Swear

I just want to see what life's going to throw my way. So far, it's been very unexpected. I'm kinda on a roller coaster and want to enjoy that.

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Life Enjoy Unexpected Way

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

Anya Taylor-Joy

World Matter Who Sense

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Life My Life Difficult Leave

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

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Life Family Me Time

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.

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Me Feel Like Belong

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Beautiful World Looking Magic

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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.

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Lucky Play Kind Quite

It is kind of bizarre, but at the same time, I feel like anyone that gets into movies didn't fit into the real world, and so we made our own world.

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Time World Feel Movies

I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary - I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time ever because I had a party to go to the day after, and I wanted to practice, and this black car kind of started following me, so I, being dramatic, picked up the dog and started to run.

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Day Me Car Time

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

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Work Love Myself Good

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

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Feel Think Place Belong

I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.

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Family You Society World

I'm a hugger and a lover and a dancer!

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I'm a surprisingly good rapper.

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Good Rapper Surprisingly

I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.

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Me Never Always Something

I'd love to work with the Coen brothers. And Steven Spielberg. 'E.T.' was big for me.

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Work Love Me Big

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Me Women Never Lucky

I just want to work with wonderful people.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Work People Want Wonderful People

My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.

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Me Expect Make Goal

Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.

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Blood Just Right Even

I don't actually watch that much TV, but I was obsessed with 'Dawson's Creek' growing up. And 'Freaks and Geeks.' And '8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.'

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Simple Daughter Dating Growing Up

I have an active imagination.

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Imagination Active

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