Martin Freeman
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"Martin John Christopher Freeman" is an English actor, best known for portraying Tim Canterbury in the UK version of the sitcom mockumentary The Office (UK TV series)/The Office, Dr. Watson/Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock (TV series)/Sherlock, Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit (film series)/The Hobbit film trilogy, and Lester Nygaard in the dark comedy-crime drama TV series Fargo (TV series)/Fargo.

His other notable film roles include the romantic comedy Love Actually (2003), the comic science fiction film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)/The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), the semi-improvised comedy Nativity! (film)/Nativity! (2009), and the comedic Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy/Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, most prominently in the sci-fi comedy The World's End (film)/The World's End (2013). Among other accolades, he has won an Emmy Award, British Academy Film Awards/BAFTA Award and an Empire Award, with other nominations including two other Emmy Awards, two other BAFTA Awards, a Saturn Award, and a Golden Globe Award.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

[Officials throughout NFIP] deliberately and fraudulently used low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to.

Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested.

If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that. I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.