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Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
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Jason Isaacs
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
Anne Enright
Novelist and short-story writer
I was not great with my mother-in-law, who was a very gentle woman. I thought she would be an uninvited part of my life for ever, but she died early and I wished I had been more open and patient.
Emilia Fox
English actress and presenter
Any writer who thinks I’ve ruined their work in performance.
Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
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That people listen to my voice when I speak.
In the car with my kids, singing Purple Rain.
As a broad who gave it a go.
Harriet Harman. I know how hard it is to do what she’s doing.
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