Don Warrington
British actor
Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
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Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
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I never set my sights that high, so I’m not disappointed with anything.
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Not yet being able to sing in a free Cuba.
Three times when I lived in New York, I missed seeing David Bowie in real life by moments.
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When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
The End by the Beatles.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
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