Felicity Jones
British actress
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
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A lady came up to me in Tesco last year and said, “Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Roger McGough?”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 January 2026 source ↗
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View all 122 →Edward Bond, the playwright, said I was like a turd flowing on the effluent of British culture.
“You’ll never, ever work.” When you are young and full of hopes and dreams it’s devastating. I am just grateful that I thought: “Well, I’m going to try.”
A friend and I were talking about eating disorders and he said: “Well, we never have to worry about you not eating.”
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That it will go on quite happily without me.
A picnic on the beach at Seaforth during the war. Somehow I managed to wriggle through a barbed-wire fence and run across a minefield. My teenage aunt Kat bravely followed suit and rescued me.
Unimpeachable, nonpareil, self‑effacing.
Losing track (see above).
I had dreams of becoming the first scouse pope. Unfortunately, the girls got to me first.
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