When I got hit by a car in my home town.
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On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
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View all 209 →I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
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I inadvertently rubbed the milky residue of a toxic cactus plant into my eye while filming Women In Love in the desert in Namibia, and my body went into anaphylactic shock as the producer sped me to a clinic 50 miles away.
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An emergency landing in a snow storm in Philadelphia.
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View profile →When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
I did a crap impersonation of JK Rowling a few years ago. Sorry, JK. Can this apology put me on a casting list for your next mega-franchise?
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
The End by the Beatles.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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