Felicity Jones
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“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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“Your lyrics are rubbish.” It was someone I was working with when I was in my early 20s. It turned out well because I then spent a long time studying and learning how to write good lyrics.
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View all 122 →People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
Someone said that I had a laugh like Jimmy Carr.
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I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
I get distracted by anything and everything, so all my projects finish just before the deadline. Sometimes, it’s a bit too tight.
Knowing everyone I love is always going to be healthy.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
My grandma, who died a few years ago, because I wasn’t able to see her on my last visit to Georgia.
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