Joely Richardson
British actress
My one-woman show playing Emily Dickinson: two hours by myself on stage and over 50 performances. I’m really happy I had the guts to do that.
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Being able to buy my parents a house.
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Jason Derulo
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
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I am a pretty good dog mum.
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The Blazing World.
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
Wasting my life.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
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