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To still be working.
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Kate Nash
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Surviving the music industry. I think it’s been responsible for killing a lot of musicians. Lots of us have mental health issues, and drink and drug problems, and the industry doesn’t really care.
Katherine Parkinson
English actor
I went to a state school, so had to learn ancient Greek from scratch at Oxford.
That I am still creative.
Being a parent.
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Never working again.
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
I’m getting closer all the time.
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