I was filming T4 at T in the Park one year, and one person kept shouting, "Popworld cunt" at me. That sucked.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2011 source ↗
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Alain de Botton
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"You can't write."
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
It would be a racist comment.
I was thrown out of a club by bouncers when I walked into somebody and told them that I was registered blind. They said: “Don’t give a fuck – you don’t belong in here.” As a straight white man, it gives you a taste of what other people have to contend with.
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I love curating things in general. I love writing. It might actually be the solution to my problem, my dilemma that I don't know what to do. It's because I like to do everything. I like to appease that nature of wanting to dabble in things.
Like there's nothing you can do about it.
I'm scared of the dark.
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