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At each of my theatre premieres.
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Joseph Fiennes
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Climbing in Tibet, surfing in Australia and a moment ago by a courgette cutter as I dithered over one of these questions.
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
I was stabbed in my 20s. It was a late-night mugging and, while taking my wallet, they stabbed me in my chest.
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A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.
I dreamed of being an artistic skater. And a nursery nurse.
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