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    Your 21-Step Guide To The Proper Worship Of Marion Cotillard

    It's time to promote your Marion Cotillard obsession to a full-on religion.

    So, you want to worship Marion Cotillard as your lord and saviour.

    To correctly worship Marion Cotillard, you must emulate the goddess herself, and live by her many teachings.

    1. It is said that Marion Cotillard once walked on cobblestones in stilletos as if it was nothing.

    2. Watch La Vie en Rose twice every week, and weep openly.

    3. If you must ever look over your shoulder, look only over your right shoulder, and do so fabulously.

    4. Never settle.

    5. You may only appear shy, uncertain, or unconfident if you are being paid a lot of money to do so, and afterwards you win an Academy Award for it.

    6. When you laugh, crinkle your nose so that it looks like ripples in a tranquil pond where a forsaken lover has tossed a diamond ring rejected by his beloved.

    7. Four times a day, kneel before this photo of Marion Cotillard wearing a dress made out of scrap metal, and be grateful for all that is good in the world.

    8. Enter all rooms like this.

    9. Exit all rooms like this.

    10. Always do this.

    11. If anybody suggests that your worship of Marion Cotillard is an illegitimate faith, your goddess commands that you make this face of utter ennui.

    12. Learn French.

    13. Make sure that everything you do is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

    14. Your goddess also commands you to protect the environment.

    15. Say beautiful things about your art, and while you are thinking of them, make these thinking sounds.

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    16. Every month, at the new moon, at midnight, walk through the woods until you find a circle of ancient oak trees, unsullied by man or beast. When you have found such a place, you may watch the following GIF exactly three times and rejoice:

    17. Emit a glow of inner and outer beauty; choose to cast it upon others as it suits you.

    18. If you must despair, despair completely. Despair like a despairing angel.

    19. If you must weep, weep actual milk in a crazy David Bowie music video.

    20. And once you're done despairing and weeping, go immediately back to being flawless.

    21. Know that you will never be worthy of Marion Cotillard, not even the mole upon her head.

    Because it, like her, is perfect.

    It is thought to be the source of all her powers.

    Congratulations, Marion Cotillard is now your heart, your soul, your religion, your world.

    Bow down.