Eleanor Tomlinson
English actress
Relief and an achy feeling in your cheeks from smiling.
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
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What is your worst intellectual habit?
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Time & hindsight
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
Values & belief
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What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck?
Craft & work
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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I used to tell Kristina, “I choose to be married to you every day.”
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Hayley Squires
English actress and playwright
Essential, like oxygen.
Connection, warmth, somebody you can trust and, quite happily, say nothing to.
Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
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The only habit you can rely in the Scarlet O'Hara rule: Tomorrow is another day. And you hope you are there for it.
I just lack the basic fact-finding instinct.
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