Shadowing Practice: 17 Minutes Is Enough to Fall In Love with Angelina Jolie - Learn English Speaking with Video
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It's really nice to be here.
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Thanks, it's nice to have you here.
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Thank you.
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We've been wanting you to come on for a while, so thanks for being here.
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I've wanted to come on.
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I haven't had a good excuse, so...
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You don't need an excuse.
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- Well good, I'll be on a lot then.
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- You can just, you don't even-- - Just show up.
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- Yeah, you can just sit here and we'll move the other guest over.
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And then you can come on whenever you want.
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- Thank you.
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- So, how are you?
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- I'm good.
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- Yeah?
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- Yeah, yeah.
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It's good to have you here.
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I'm looking at this picture of the little baby Oh my god.
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He is, I was gonna look at it myself, I guess I should share it.
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Here?
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- No. - No, he's-- That is so amazing.
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You're balancing-- I saw you at the Academy Awards the other night, and you're balancing all this.
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Now, did you go to the parties?
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Do you go home to be with him, or what did you-- I actually, I left I stayed for about 45 minutes and then I left to go to In -N -Out Burger.
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Oh.
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Um...
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in full outfit and diamonds, which was very confusing to some people, but, uh.. but we all had a laugh.
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It was actually really, uh, I was hungry.
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And -and which In -N -Out burger did you go to?
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What?
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-Hollywood.
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Uh -huh.
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That seems safe.
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Yeah. To walk in.
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Did you have people with you?
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Or did anyone...
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Was it a scene?
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It was actually really great because everybody just kind of was eating their burgers and went, "Oh, How's the Oscars?
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I said, oh, it was, you know, it was, It's okay.
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They don't feed you?
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- No, not, oh, that's too bad, you know.
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- Only in Hollywood would people just look up and go, "How are the Oscars?" So, and then you went home to be with, Maddox is his name, right?
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- Yeah, I put Maddox.
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- And now, oh, so he was asleep.
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What time was-- - No, no, he was awake.
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I put him to bed when I got home.
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I keep him up late so selfishly I can put him to bed.
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I think that's a good thing to be selfish in that way.
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Now is he he's how old two?
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He's two and a half.
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And is he talking?
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He is talking.
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He's got this really funny accent because I think he's traveled so much.
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His first seven months he was in an orphanage in Asia.
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And then he's been in England, and then he's got some Southern people around him.
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So he says everything with a different accent. So...
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It's like I am.
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I'm really good with the accents, you know that.
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And so what words does he say and what.. does he speak other languages?
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Mama sounds French.
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Bye -bye is very Southern.
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And how does that sound?
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How does Mama sound French?
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Mama.
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Mama.
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I like mama.
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That's sort of like my southern mama.
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Mama.
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Mama.
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Yeah.
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Mama.
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Just bye bye like your mom, like a southern.
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Bye bye.
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Bye bye.
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That's adorable.
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Does he mean bye bye or is he saying something else?
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He might be.
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Yeah.
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He says a few things that I don't know what they mean but I think they might be chimera for something.
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Uh -huh.
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Which is his Cambodian language.
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It's called what?
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Khmer.
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Khmer.
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And Well, how would he have access to that right now?
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Well, because the first seven months-- well, we do travel back to Cambodia a lot.
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But his first seven months was just straight Khmer language, and then he has-- He's been around Khmer people for a while.
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So there are a few words that just come out which you don't know what they mean, but he says them with a lot of certainty.
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I think he's saying a few things that I just can't understand.
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Well, That's one way to...
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Yeah.
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And probably not saying anything. But, um...
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Brittany Murphy was on, you know, the actress Brittany Murphy, she claims that she started talking at six months and full paragraphs at nine months.
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Really?
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Yeah, she's a liar. And, um...
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Because that's impossible, isn't it?
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Well, I think so.
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Now, he's probably not even potty trained at this age, much less He.. he's...
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He's pretty potty trained.
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He's, I mean, he...
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He's, we're celebrating the potty now.
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We're embracing the potty.
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You're embracing the potty.
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You should celebrate, but maybe not embrace.
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- He's a...
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He gets very excited now, so when I come home, and he comes in, he doesn't say mama.
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He says, "Pee -pee -poo -poo !"
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"Did you pee -pee -poo -poo?" "Yes !" And then he comes and he shows me the potty, 'cause then he's gonna, you know, and I do a potty dance, and...
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Oh, we'd love to see that.
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I kind of need him with me.
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It's kind of a tango.
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It's, you know...
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We can get you a doll or something.
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So you celebrate the potty dance, and what a great thing.
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You come home to just some little child going pee -pee -poo -poo.
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That's a full life, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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It is.
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It is.
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It actually is.
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I'm serious.
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That's adorable.
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Because you're balancing so many different things, and you live You don't live here, right?
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No, we live in England and Cambodia.
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And that would-- I would imagine those houses Cambodia would be the country house.
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Probably.
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It's probably not as-- It's the jungle house.
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Yeah.
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Because I heard a little bit about it.
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There's no...
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talking about potty training he doesn't even there's no bathroom where you are right well we're working on that but
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but you don't have a bathroom in your house well we have i'm telling you you don't i read it
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we're working on trying to bring in like some some kind of way of pipes
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and things and
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but he loves going to the one thing he's really good at he loves to pee outside
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so well he sounds really well potty trained Who doesn't love to be peeing outside?
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And what do you do?
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How do you discourage that?
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I mean, or do you not discourage it?
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I don't.
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Okay.
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So then he's not potty trained.
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Well, because he lives half the time, he's gonna live in the jungle, so if he understands that if he doesn't have a potty near him and he finds...
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A bush or a...
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As long as it's not a friend's house plant.
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Right.
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I see.
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Oh, I see.
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You have a line.
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All right.
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I see.
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So if it's a ficus, it's wrong.
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All right.
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We have to, uh, we're going to take a commercial and we're going to come back and, uh, and make sure that people understand that, that, uh, You're raising him just fine.
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We'll be right back.
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Is that what anything you delete?
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What?
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That's the clip they must be, the only thing in the film they can show during daytime.
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Really?
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Why?
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Well, that's from taking lives.
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Why is that?
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What do you mean?
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- -It's a very scary...
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Yeah, it looks really scary.
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And I think sexy and I think all those things, but it's so, So yeah, it's just funny for me to see which piece they chose, but obviously that's what they have to...
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Yeah, it looks really scary and sometimes I don't...
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I...
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'cause coffee.. oh...
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No, it does and it's getting great reviews.
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I'm scared of movies like that usually, but I want to see it because it seems really good.
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I think it is.
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Yeah.
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What's it about?
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Oh God, I hate this part.
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Okay, it's um don't tell it.
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It's it's just it's one of those.
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It's this great kind of uh psychological thrillers but you read, you know, I hate them and you read them and you think you know exactly what's gonna happen but
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But I was reading it, it surprised me, and it's just, It's just such a good one.
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I think I hadn't come across a story like this in a long time.
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Great characters and it is really sexy and there are a lot of very interesting relationships. And it's very scary.
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All right.
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I'll see it.
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All right, so you're balancing this and I saw, I was talking to you during the commercial about all the work you're doing.
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You're a Goodwill Ambassador.
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Well, just tell people what that work is because I can't believe you're balancing both and how you're-- Oh, I'm so-- It sounds like I have a very full...
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Obviously, I have a very...
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I love what I do for a living.
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I love being an actor and I love being a mom and love working with the UN, so...
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The balance is quite easy, but I work with UNHCR, which is a refugee organization in the UN.
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And there are 20 million refugees today.
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So I spend a lot of time in different countries just traveling with them, speaking with them, learning about the situations, what caused them to flee.
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And And just getting aware in some areas of the world, getting more politically involved in some areas, just in humanitarian.
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situation, but just bringing awareness.
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Well, you are, because I became more aware of it from seeing your interview.
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And you're also-- you're going to adopt a baby from every country?
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Is that what you said?
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Yeah, I plan to.
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I mean, really, you almost are going to-- there's a lot of countries.
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There are a lot of countries.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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So you're going to have a lot of babies.
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I'm gonna have a lot of babies.
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I just love the idea of mixing all different cultures and religions in the same house and seeing, you know, I think that's what the world should be.
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Yeah.
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Yes, it should.
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All right.
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And now we know that you're gonna, uh, You're going to carry the torch, the Olympic torch, in August, which is going to be very exciting for you.
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This is probably the first time my mom's hearing about it.
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No, really?
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Well, yeah.
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She's probably watching, so.
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Your daughter's carrying the torch.
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And so we thought it'd be sad for you to be by yourself out there.
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That must be scary.
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So you'd want to bring Maddox with you.
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And so we had something made for you to bring Maddox.
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Isn't that great?
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Oh, my God.
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That's not the real choice, but-- - You ready?
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Yeah.
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I'll practice.
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You can practice now.
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And you can take them on a little hikes around the neighborhood like that.
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Oh, good.
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I love you.
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You're welcome.
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I want them to get it all out.
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And because of all that, because of the way people feel about you, I introduce you as one of the world's most talked about actresses.
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And you really are.
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We were looking for like a magazine cover and there's like a What are you thinking about right there?
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I have that outfit.
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And then, uh... So you're on everything.
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Now, do you read these things?
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When you see your-- are you curious what they're saying?
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I am on that one. Which one?
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Us?
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Yeah, I hadn't seen that one.
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Yeah.
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Are you and Billy Bob back on?
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No. You're not back on.
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No. Are you friendly?
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Yeah, we're friendly.
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That's nice.
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OK.
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I'm not getting into it.
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I don't really-- No, we are.
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We're very friendly.
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Yeah.
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But do you read to see what people are saying?
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No, I don't.
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I just ask my mom if it's OK.
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Oh, she reads them all.
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And does she keep them?
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She does.
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She has stacks of everything.
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She's got pictures of me and Matt and all over her room and bizarre bizarre tabloid stories that-- that-- Because it's everywhere.
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To embarrass me with.
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It's not just here.
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It's all over the world.
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You must have this.
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Yeah, I really try to ignore it.
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I mean, my mom obviously just-- she looks for new pictures of Madden.
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I'm a really bad mom where I don't take enough pictures and send home to his grandma.
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Really?
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You know, so she needs to look and-- silly magazines like that to get proper pictures.
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So I'm sorry, Mom, and I will send more pictures.
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His photo album is just from Us Magazine.
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You trying to shield his face.
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That's you.
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That's your nose.
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- Every time I see a picture of him, he's laughing like that.
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He's a little crazy.
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Yeah.
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So he convinces you to do-- I mean, the fact that I was joking about this backstage, you actually got your pilot's license.
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I did, yeah.
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That's really imp--it's very impressive.
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Thank you.
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I mean, that's--it's a hard thing to do.
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It was the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I, I, uh, I was horrible in school when it came to math or meteorology or anything like that, and, uh, And it's hard.
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studying and testing school.
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And it's horrible.
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I hope it is hard.
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We don't want anybody up there with a manual just-- We wanted to celebrate.
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Because that's really-- I mean, that's really cool that you're a pilot.
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And so you've got to look good, right?
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So we thought we would give you goggles and a little thing.
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And look, you have the hat.
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Oh, that's very sweet.
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Isn't that great?
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- I love it.
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If Maddox is going to be flying with you, you definitely want him.
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Isn't that great?
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And he's got his little hat.
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Can you imagine how cute he's going to be in that little hat?
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I will send you a picture of us in them.
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- All right, good.
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Really?
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- Yeah, I promise.
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- Okay, I want to see them.
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Here, I'll put them over here so you're not holding them on your lap, because I want you to show me.
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- Oh, Duff, I love them.
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- I will, though.
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- I'm glad.
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And also, I can't believe you got another tattoo.
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Oh, God.
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Well...
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I did, yeah.
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And where is it?
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It's on my back.
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Can we see it?
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Woo!
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- Go, Sarah!
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- Go, Sarah!
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- Go, Sarah!
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- All right, so...
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This is-- how long did this take?
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It took about two hours.
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Two hours, and you're seated like this for two hours with a guy-- Do you know him?
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He's a monk actually in Thailand.
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And that's where you had it done?
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Yeah.
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And what kind of thing is that that he's using?
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Because that doesn't look like a regular needle.
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It's the traditional way, so it's a very long needle and they tap it in as opposed to the machine.
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They tap it in.
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Yeah, yeah.
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How far?
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It is actually quite painful.
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You're not looking like you're in pain there.
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You're kind of smiling.
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Well, when you do it this way, where they take it very seriously as if it's a spiritual--
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They're giving you something and it's the strength of the country and the animal in prayer, so you have to pray.
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I wanted to lay on the floor and have a drink.
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He said I needed to pray.
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You were praying for a drink.
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So how many tattoos does that make for you now?
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I don't know. That many.
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I don't know.
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Well, no, I mean, because I have-- Uh, I don't know.
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17, 18, something like that.
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No, that's why I always-- people wonder why I wear long sleeves all the time.
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And this is a recent tattoo that I just got.
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- That's gorgeous, actually.
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- I'll show you later.
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It's awesome.
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Thank you.
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All right, we have to take a break.
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We're going to-- we'll be right back, right after this.
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We're back with Angelina Jolie.
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That was a clip from Alexander.
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And Monday, Colin was on the show.
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You two together.
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It's-- You know, you just want to go.
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You don't even have to listen to anything going on in the movie.
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Just watching the two of you together, that must have been-- I mean, first of all, it must have been wild, the two of you together.
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Did you have fun?
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We had fun.
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I think everybody in the film is kind of considered the odd men out in this business, Val and Oliver, myself, and Colin, are kind of You know,
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we're the tabloids friends, you know, we're like everybody's...
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So to have us all together was a...
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But everybody's really wild.
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At the end of the day, we all got together.
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We were all very supportive of each other and everybody's kindness came out.
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Maybe because We were all each other's equal.
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Nobody messed with anybody.
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But you played his mother in the film?
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And you're a year older than me?
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Women aged in Hollywood.
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Very good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That-- no, but you're a year older than me.
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I am a year older.
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I was just as shocked as everybody when I got the-- Oliver Stone is insane.
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Yeah.
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But I read it and she starts, you meet her when Alexander's five.
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And then she ages to 50 from 25.
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And also, it was a great opportunity for you and Colin to work together.
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You're a couple, I've read.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Well, since you broke up.
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Yeah.
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Well, yeah.
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I want him to go on.
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Yeah?
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Yeah, he still talks about you.
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Yeah, I'm sure he does, but he's got to move on.
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Alan, Alan.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The wrong name all the time.
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All right, so but you're are you linked with anybody right now?
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I'm linked with everybody.
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Uh -huh.
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I'm linked with everybody all the time.
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Yeah.
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I mean anybody I've worked with I'm linked with.
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Uh -huh.
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I don't know.
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But how many of them are true?
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None of them are true.
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Really?
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I haven't read all the papers, I'm assuming.
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I haven't seen the I've actually been around in the papers.
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So you're not dating anybody right now?
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I'm not dating anybody.
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All right, well, thanks for being here.
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And it's lovely seeing you again.
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Come back.
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And Alexanders in theaters everywhere.
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We'll be right back.
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Don't go away.
Context & Background
In this engaging conversation featuring actress Angelina Jolie, we witness her charm and humor as she shares experiences from her life as a mother and a public figure. The dialogue offers a glimpse into balancing her career, family life, and social engagements, providing learners an excellent opportunity to practice conversational English. With relatable themes such as parenting and celebrity culture, this exchange is not only entertaining but also rich in language usage for English learners.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- “You don’t need an excuse.” – A friendly way to reassure someone they are welcome anytime.
- “How are you?” – A common and polite question to inquire about someone's well-being.
- “I was hungry.” – A simple expression to convey one's immediate need or desire for food.
- “Oh, that's too bad.” – A sympathetic response that shows understanding of someone’s disappointment.
- “I put him to bed.” – A phrase indicating a nurturing action, often used by parents.
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