Alison Steadman
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A critic once said she wanted to lift a carpet, put me under it and hold it down until I stopped moving.
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I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.
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Charles Dance
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“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
In school, I was 11, and we had to paint a picture of family life. My painting was held up to the class and I was told it looked like a spider with ink on its feet had walked across the page. It was done so viciously – humiliating.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
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View profile →Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
An air traffic controller.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
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