Kelly Macdonald
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I spent my life searching for family. I travelled around the world to look each one of them in the eye. Unfortunately, but understandably, for most of them, I am their biggest disappointment.
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After I got arrested, my dad, a lawyer, took me to a QC to try to build a case against the FBI. The dejection on his face when it became obvious that we couldn’t was disappointing.
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That the last general election didn’t take place later. We might have got rid of the Tories with a couple more weeks.
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Romantic love – what a con. (I do still believe in it.)
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When I was a child, a member of staff at Wood End Assessment Centre [a former children’s home in Wigan] bellowed: “He copies them poems off of Bob Marley records.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home.
Believing in, even admiring, people who refuse to believe in me, and not believing people who do.
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
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