Fay Ripley
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If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
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View all 124 →Throwing up all over the red velvet seats in the House of Lords on a school trip, aged nine.
Going on stage and saying, “Good evening Lyon!” I was in Marseille.
Appearing on US breakfast radio. I heard the DJ say that after the news we would hear from the author Lincoln Child. I had to choose between making a guy with a mixed-up PR release look like an idiot or pretending to be Lincoln. I pretended.
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If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
That I don’t give myself enough credit.
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