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Flying over the Australian outback in a jet, looking down at the incredible orange scenery, the uninhabited hills and gullies, listening to Tchaikovsky on my headphones and drinking champagne with a cigarette in my hand. It was 1984, I'd been to the Adelaide Book Festival and was going back to my husband and my children.
When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.
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.
Anger at people's agenda to control others.
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