My ex-wife.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
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My ex-wife.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
The concept of New Labour.
Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
I got offered the part by the director Thea Sharrock and read it, heard that Nancy Carroll and Adrian Scarborough were in it and accepted.
My problem is that I'm too relaxed, too laidback. Most of the time I feel like a flat tire; totally unmotivated, positively lifeless. I can fall asleep at any time during the day. It takes a lot to get me stimulated, and I'm an excessively sensitive person, which complicates things. I can be totally at ease one minute, and then, for no reason whatsoever, I get restless and fidgety; doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
I tested whistles for the police.
I like ironing my socks.
I was at an Aston Villa match and when Villa scored this stranger of a supermodel kissed me.
In 1985, in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, sitting on the veranda with my grandmother, people-watching, and listening to poetry and local gossip.
Not having children.
To my mother for having to bail me out when I was young.
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