Funny, loyal, genuine.
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Driven, sensitive and playful.
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I never know who I am.
Earnest, driven, Gemini.
Two sturdy teeth.
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On Monday in therapy.
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.
On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out.
To keep trying to listen to yourself.
As someone with integrity.
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