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Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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View all 196 →An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
Things I wish I’d done better that day.
Ambulances – I live near a hospital.
One after the other, thoughts come banging in – and it’s no sleep for you tonight, dearie.
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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
A sense of home.
To trust in the process.
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