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A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗
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Greta Thunberg, a brightly coloured little bird in a coalmine, desperately sounding the alarm for others while laying her childhood to waste.
Like a cosy cloud of softness coupled with an orthopaedic mattress underneath.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
By the sea. I would like to be on the beach in Kerala, I would like to be on the beach at Yellowcraigs in Scotland, and then at a really good table, drinking really good wine, eating delicious food, and discussing things I am passionate about with people that I am passionate about.
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