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I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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When my son was about three years old and I was working at the National Theatre. I remember cycling from Twickenham, and thinking, “This is the golden age: I’ll never be happier or more content than this.”
Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.
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