Andrea Riseborough
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Right now, terrifying.
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The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
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Rita Wilson
American actress, singer, and producer
Like waves of warm water rippling on to the shores of your heart.
Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
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As an everyman who could act a bit.
Bringing two kids into the world, but my interrogation scene in Line Of Duty comes a close second. It was 12 minutes long and, without question, the hardest passage of dialogue I’ve had to learn.
A utility room.
The light in my neighbours’ kitchen because they still haven’t put a blind up.
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