Eve Ensler
American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
Going off all technology.
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A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
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Less admin, emails, phone calls; more space to think, read and sleep.
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Anonymity. I am not being ungrateful, and I love meeting people, but being six foot four, with big teeth and a beard – there’s no hiding.
Stephen Merchant
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More air miles.
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Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
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