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Unpacking scenery from a pantechnicon for the Carl Rosa Opera Company.
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Cybill Shepherd
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A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.
Harlan Coben
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I worked a janitorial job, cleaning university dormitories after students had gone home for the summer. You can’t imagine the condition some of those rooms were in. They could have doubled as sets for a slasher film.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
Erin O'Connor
English model
Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.
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The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
Basking in the sun.
Murray Perahia, because he is a great pianist, and temporarily lost the use of one hand, which prevented him from playing. His courage was beyond description.
This morning. Thinking of my wife.
Having a heart attack two days after my wife’s funeral.
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