Jane Asher
English actress and author
Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
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Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
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Meera Syal
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Having to clean out my daughter’s digs at university. The memory of the state of that toilet still lives with me.
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Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
I was the PE technician at my old secondary school, so I had to pump up all the balls, wash all the kits and get the form notes in before morning registration every day.
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Warmth and security.
Dreaming that I am about to go on stage or set but haven’t got the right script.
Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.
Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.
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