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The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
False humility.
Lack of self-doubt.
Talking in cliches. We have the most economic, resonant and versatile language in the world, yet so many people use it in a dull and boring way.
A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.
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