That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.
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I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
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Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
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A review that said I had the charm of a hamster.
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