If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
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If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗
A potion that would make me fit, thin, healthy and useful.
If my children could change their own nappies.
A home. I just bought one on Long Island. My first piece of property.
Having children: it’s what I’m most looking forward to.
Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.
A missionary in Africa – I think that was Sunday school-based.
Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.
Speedy, bossy, loving.
Very impatient, bossy, always late.
A glow of wellbeing.
Ralph Steadman, Serena Williams, Daniel Mays, Busta Rhymes, Adele Parks, Victoria Pendleton
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