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Robert Bathurst
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Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
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Right now, terrifying.
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“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
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