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Losing my mum when I was 28.
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Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Not having had children.
Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian writer and musician
Tottenham this season.
Lolita Chakrabarti
British actress and writer
That my first play, Red Velvet, took so many years to be done. It took me seven years to write and then five years to get to the stage.
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