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My limited capacity to learn.
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Kathy Burke
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As a kid, discovering my brain wasn't controlled by The Numskulls from The Beezer.
Christopher Eccleston
English actor
Falling off the stage in the third preview of Macbeth at the RSC.
That money doesn’t buy happiness.
Jason Derulo
American singer and songwriter
That I haven’t done a film I love yet.
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When I was working hard, I was going so fast that I didn’t absorb a lot.
A coming together of global consciousness.
My mother. I am always fascinated by her, and I get schooled every time I’m around her.
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