Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
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Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
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Joely Richardson
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My one-woman show playing Emily Dickinson: two hours by myself on stage and over 50 performances. I’m really happy I had the guts to do that.
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Waking people up.
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To be working still.
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Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
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