To my mum, for being such a tricky teenager.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2010 source ↗
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?Originally asked
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Felicity Jones
British actress
No one, I’m pretty good at saying sorry.
Charles Dance
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My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
I am too ashamed to answer.
Jess Phillips
British politician
Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
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Probably something else I learned at art school, which is the ability to make something from very little using your own imagination. That’s the building block of my career.
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Myself or a loved one getting a life-threatening illness.
Remembering something I wish I hadn't said.
Don’t just do what other people think you should be doing.
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