I was a tomboy running around ...

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.
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 Felicity Jones

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Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
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 Felicity Jones
My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.
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 Felicity Jones
My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.
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 Felicity Jones
My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.
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 Felicity Jones
I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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 Felicity Jones