Shaznay Lewis
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Some of those late nights.
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I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.
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I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
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The birth of my first child, July 4 2002.
The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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To John, a really close friend who died last year. I'd love to see him one more time and say, 'Look, I'm sorry I wasn't around enough during your life.'
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