I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
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I would take away fear.
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I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
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Nothing. Without my past I wouldn’t be who I am today.
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Receiving a letter saying I didn’t get into drama school. I felt like Billy Elliot. It was a crushing moment.
Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.
A Matisse and my Leica camera.
I told my mum I wanted to be a swan.
There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.
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