None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
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My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
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I never finished The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.
My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
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Hardworking, authentic and honest.
I haven’t grown up.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
The inability to do things for myself.
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