Belinda Carlisle
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Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
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Earning a living as an actor for 40 years.
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Rupert Graves
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Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
Being able to paint the way I do.
John Waters
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That I live a life with no contact with arseholes.
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Playing a pregnant woman, and not being able to find the padding - I shoved a cardie under my dress, and spent the whole play walking around with a sleeve dragging along the floor.
Washing dishes when I was a student.
I would never have smoked - I gave up years ago.
That we will drown in plastic waste.
I didn't go to a retirement party once for someone who had been special to me and he died shortly after.
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