A few haircuts.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
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Unfriendliness.
Absolutely nothing.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
Full of passion and laughter.
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