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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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Charlotte Church
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A barrister, a vet or a singer.
Hayley Squires
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I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.
Alice Munro
My favorite writer is Alice Munro—all of her books. She’s a tremendous writer and has taught me so much about writing.
As a child, Munro was constantly telling herself stories. One of the first was “The Little Mermaid,” by Hans Christian Anderson, whose ending she couldn’t bear.
A pearl diver in Japan.
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Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
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