Emeli Sandé
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Freedom: it’s euphoric.
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Stimulating in every way.
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Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.
The Middle East crisis.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
When I was first acting, in college, a relative came and saw me in Hedda Gabler and she said: “Look in the mirror, you’re not an actor. An actor looks like Mel Gibson.”
To tell the truth.
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