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“It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.”
Source: Oscar acceptance speech, Los Angeles, 2 March 2014
Context From her Oscar speech for playing Patsey, an enslaved woman in 12 Years a Slave; the pain she refers to was Patsey's.
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