She rises before dawn and stays up late, reading everything.

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She still rises at dawn to hand out leaflets.

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She said the Lottery would benefit from profit sharing based on rises in land values in the Olympic park area.

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"The 67-year-old Mirren rises to the daunting technical challenge with a quite uncannily fluid lightness of touch as she shifts back and forth on an age-spectrum of six decades, " wrote The Independent's Paul Taylor.

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