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Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2024 source ↗
Serving bar snacks in a pub in my teens. Once I spilled an entire family’s Sunday lunch into the dad’s lap.
Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.
I wish I could be more patient. I always want things to get done or happen now.
That everything happens for a reason.
My housemate, because I keep shrinking his jumpers in the wash.
When you’re younger you confuse love with chaos and passion and, as I’ve gotten older, I realise that love is the opposite: it’s peace and it feels safe, like home.
Every time I go on a plane I feel awful about it. So for me, and everyone in the world, being able to board an electric plane would be really cool.
The last time I really sobbed was watching Daniel Radcliffe’s documentary about his stuntman on the Harry Potter movies [David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived].
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