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When the acting is going really well – when I am flying.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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In my childhood, when I didn’t think about whether it was happy. It just was.
In the hospital when my children were born.
The birth of my children.
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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Getting ill. I am in remission [from rheumatoid arthritis], but there is no cure.
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