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Speedy, bossy, loving.
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Needing order always.
Ponderous, over thinking.
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View profile →Laziness, lack of empathy, lack of humour.
If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
“You’ll never, ever work.” When you are young and full of hopes and dreams it’s devastating. I am just grateful that I thought: “Well, I’m going to try.”
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
A glow of wellbeing.
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