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Swinton also confessed that her goals in life were anything but launching a successful movie career.

\"I’ve never had any ambition as an artist,\" she exclaimed. \"That may sound crazy and transgressive, but it’s a fact. If you’d asked me when I was 10 or 20, I would have said my only ambitions were to live in a family, to have friends that made me laugh and laughed at my jokes, and to live in the Highlands of Scotland, by the sea with a lot of dogs and a kitchen garden. Seriously.\"

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The \"Snowpiercer\" star said she is \"blessed\" to have achieved those dreams of hers, adding, \"Everything else is a bonus. Everything else is just icing and candles and flowers alongside.\"

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