Nothing: I live in the now.
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Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
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I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.
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That my nose and chin will touch.
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In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
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