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Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
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Inconsequential things like whether my basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers, can get it together for the play-offs.
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Worrying about my children.
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Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
Sadie Frost
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Eight years ago, I didn’t sleep for more than two hours a night and was very skinny. I went to a sleep clinic, and learned techniques to switch my mind off.
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