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Brie Larson [1989-0] American

Rank: 101
Actress

Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress, director, and singer. Born in Sacramento, California, Larson was home-schooled before she studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater.

Learning, Alone, Attitude, Chance, Change, Courage, Forgiveness, Mom, Respect, Thanksgiving, Travel

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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.		101
Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the world. Sometimes, people will run up to you as if this is Disneyland and I'm a character. I understand their point of view, but it's difficult to explain how terrified it makes me. I'm so nervous.		102
I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.	Alone	103
For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.		104
I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.		105
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.	Change	106
I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.		107
I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.	Mom	108
I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.		109
I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.		110
My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.		111
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.	Learning	112
Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.		113
I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.		114
I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to an audience. It's a chance to empathize, reflect, and learn, so I really want to understand before I sign onto a project: 'What's the potential of this thing? What are we seeing and learning? What are we empathizing to?'	Chance, Learning, Respect	115
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.		116
I can be whoever I want. I can feel however I want.		117
I don't really have any people in my life who aren't gypsies.		118
For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.		119
Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.		120
I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.	Forgiveness	121
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.	Travel	122
It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.		123
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.		124
In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.		125
I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.		126
I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.		201
I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.		202
I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.		203
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.		204
Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.		205
I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.		206
I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.		207
It's very scary to allow the world to see you.		208
I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.		209
Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.		210
I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.		211
Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.		212
There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night.		213
All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.		214
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.		215
I'm just a person. I'm not anything!		216
When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.		217
I'm competitive with myself.		218
I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'		219
I can't help but trip out about how similar my life is to 'Room.' It's me wanting to stay in my own little bubble and remain anonymous and invisible and at the same time needing to step up to this hand that I've been given.		220
In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.		221
Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.		222
I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.		223
I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.		224
I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.		225
I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make really good pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'		226
I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.		301
I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and I have, like, a mom and two baby deer that come by all the time, and my dogs and the squirrels are in a full-on feud every morning.		302
It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.		303
We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.		304
To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.	Courage	305
Girls in this industry sabotage one another.		306
I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.		307
I can't tell you how many times I quit only to realize that when the work has been your life, you don't really have a life without it.		308
The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it.		309
I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.		310
The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.		311
A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.		312
The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.		313
You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.		314
I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.		315
As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.		316
I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.		317
The cool thing about designers is they have very specific points of view, and because my inspiration is always changing, it's easy to go, 'This feels right.' But just because I wear fancy dresses on weekends doesn't mean in my heart of hearts I'm not a jeans and T-shirt person.		318
I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.		319
Who would I be in 'Game of Thrones?' I love Brienne.		320
I'm trying to find new ways to entertain myself because, if my whole world is doing interviews, I might as well put them in places I've wanted to see.		321
I'm just getting my sea legs. The first time you make them laugh, you're like, 'Oh my God - that just happened.' Then you're like, 'I made them laugh. I've earned this.'		322
I love storytelling.		323
I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.		324
I find that the projects I enjoy signing up to at the moment are with a director who's interested in the script - isn't completely sure what the movie is and isn't concerned about it. He's just interested in going on the journey and discovering it.		325
For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'		326
As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.		401
When it comes to Nintendo products, I gotta go with the new stuff.		402
The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.		403
We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.		404
If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.		405
I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.	Attitude	406
It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of focus and dedication to do a film, and it's just not worth it if you're going to be miserable for even a day.		407
I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.		408
I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.		409
I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.		410
I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there's an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.		411
Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.		412
My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.		413
I'd say there's more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there's something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.		414
A lot of stuff I was reading in mythology was about how women used to be taught to be wild. The wild woman was an essence that existed in the world. We're still coming back from many years of us being chiseled out to be identical and quiet.		415
There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'		416
I'm always interested in whatever I can do to not look at my phone.		417
When I was younger, watching movies, it felt like everything was glossy and beautiful, and I didn't really relate to it.		418
When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'		419
I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.		420
As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.		421
What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.		422
I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.		423
I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.		424
I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways and the look and shapes they could be, and I felt it was missing for me in American film. I didn't see anybody I was watching in movies that felt like me. I felt rather tortured and lonely about it.		425
I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.		426
Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.		501
'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.		502
I've been so impressed by the material that's been sent to me, but I don't think that's because it's me.		503
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.		504
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.	Thanksgiving	505
My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.		506
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.		507
There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.		508
I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits. I was the type of person that would show a Powerpoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.		509
When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'		510
When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.		511
I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.		512
I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.		513
There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I'm preparing for a role of some kind, and then I'll focus on a certain subject.		514
I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.		515
We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.		516
If I had my way, I would never do a leading role.		517
Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.		518
I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.		519
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.		520
I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.		521
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.		522
I love Grimes.		523
I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.		524
I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.		525
I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'.		526
I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.		601
I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.		602
Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.		603
I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.		604
Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, and I got pages of dialogue of real stuff to do with her.		605
In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.		606
We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.		607
Trends are not real; they are for the consumer, and once we can get enough of us to free ourselves from it and realize that it's not about strong-arming our way through, it's about understanding that we are so needed for the balance of this planet, then I think we can start having changes.		608
I'm pretty tough and picky when it comes to actors that I admire.		609
I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expression and as a transcendent experience for an individual. I find that a lot of people, a lot of young actors, haven't gotten to the point where they're comfortable being stripped down. They're still interested in ornate jackets.		610
Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.		611
It seems like people have to get their thrills somehow.		612
Any time I was at Trader Joes, and the person bagging my stuff would be like, 'Did I go to college with you? How do I know you?' Then it took awhile, and suddenly people were like, 'Oh, you are the girl from 'United States of Tara.''		613
I would never say no to comedy.		614
The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.		615
I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.		616
Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.		617
I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.		618
I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.		619
I want to get better and better at my craft.		620
I love to cook, and I've just gotten more and more into it over the years, just because it's the best way to stay creative.		621
I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.		622
Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.		623
Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.		624
I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.		625
I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.		626
The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.		701
I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.		702
The only way I can feel comfortable being an actor is if I can find stories that I believe are important to be shared.		703
'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.		704
When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.		705
My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.		706
I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.		707
Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.		708
I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.		709
I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.		710
I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.		711
I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.		712
We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.		713
More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.		714
Each step of the way I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken. It's a line that is always on the edge of being crossed, and once you cross it, what's next?		715
My life is scheduled to the minute. I used to be notoriously hard to get a hold of. But now, it would be irresponsible for me to say, 'I'm not checking my phone.'		716
I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.		717
I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.		718
I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.		719
The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.		720
The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.		721
I still have moments when I close myself in, but I wouldn't be on the path that I am with the career that I've had if I didn't have a deep understanding of the sense of my inner freedom.		722
It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.		723
There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.		724
We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.		725
I won't do things for money. I can't.		726
Maybe it goes away, but this is the way I've chosen to live: I want to go down or rise up as an artist. I don't want to get swept up in lipstick or whatever the hell.		801
I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.		802
Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.		803
My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking '40s, Brie looking younger in the future.		804

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