Gemma Whelan
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The fans’ reaction at the end of Game Of Thrones because I think it was brilliant.
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I got seduced by being a pop star, and why wouldn’t I? I think I could have made a few more career moves with films. But I was nervous. How do you move forward as an actor creatively if you are just appealing to teenage girls?
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Josette Simon
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That my parents and my siblings were so shocked and appalled by my changing my path, from university to deciding to be an actor, that they have never seen anything I’ve done.
I spent about five years living in Paris thinking I would become Kristin Scott Thomas, and it didn’t happen.
Tina Brown
British and American journalist
The closure of Talk magazine.
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The inability to do things for myself.
I haven’t grown up.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Hardworking, authentic and honest.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
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