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"Eva Mendes has revealed that she doesn&amp;#039;t think marriage is &amp;quot;necessary&amp;quot;. The actress, who has dated Peruvian filmmaker George Augusto for nearly ten years, said that she just sees the ceremony as an outdated &amp;quot;tradition&amp;quot;.  She told Hollywood Life: &amp;quot;I just don&amp;#039;t think marriage is necessary, as necessary as society makes it. &amp;quot;And I don&amp;#039;t have a negative point of view on it. I just think it&amp;#039;s a very old tradition and if you look back to what marriage symbolises in the first place... it has nothing to do with why we get married today.&amp;quot; The 37-year-old has spoken of her thoughts on marriage previously. She said: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if I want children, but the idea of marriage sounds very boring to me. I have to be honest.&amp;quot; Mendes also admitted that part of the reason she does not want to marry is because she likes to rebel. &amp;gt; Eva Mendes: &amp;#039;I wanted to be a nun&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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