Julia Ormond
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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I could have done without being sexually assaulted, or having an eating disorder, or pushing myself to breaking point, but every chapter of my life brought me here.
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Ian McEwan
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To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
Eve Ensler
American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
Joss Stone
English singer, songwriter, and actress
It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
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When my cold toes drain the heat from his warm ones, but he doesn’t mind at all and is happy for our tarsal temperatures to meet in the middle.
I’ve never been upgraded on a plane.
In the one photo I’ve seen where my smile looks convincing – I’m four years old, so I’m guessing then. But I just won a Bafta and that felt amazing, too. So, roughly every 40 years.
A reviewer once called me “artistically bankrupt”, and it doesn’t feel like reviews can get much worse than that.
A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.
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