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Surviving the entertainment industry.
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What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I haven’t done it yet.
Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.
Robert Glenister
English actor
That I’m still here.
Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
To have made a career in TV while being nervous by nature and incapable of doing a piece to camera.
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View profile →When I landed the role in Soldier Soldier. I thought, “Oh my goodness, I’m going to be doing something that makes me happy, I’m doing it abroad and they’re going to pay me.” I was 26.
Fireworks. I was given a pyrotechnics course by my son for my 40th birthday, so I do displays. I can average five to 10 grand on one display.
I did a TV job, Ain’t Misbehavin’, purely for the money. I was disappointed with myself and, inevitably, incredibly unhappy.
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