At Least For My Acting Career

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I am very thank full that you people have given me the greatest achievement in the entire world, At Least for me because this has been my main goal to complete during the time of my acting career. I give my deepest thanks and regards to this great Academy for this award. (Pause) So I'm going to do my very best to be brief with my gratitude, which is gonna be fairly hard thing for me to do. (Pause) first for being on this extraordinary list of the fellow nominees that were picked and that are now here today for the chance to win this award. Something as quite as Amazing and possibly one of the greatest honors of this whole night has been somehow, for some reason been decided to be given to me, Which is a surprise (Laughs). But being real now

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