I feel no shame about not reading a book. That’s silly.
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I’ve been lugging around Doris Lessing’s books, which I have yet to read.
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View all 33 →Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
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I’ve never read Proust.
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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.
I would have been OK with feeling shy. In my teenage years, I thought being an actor meant that you had to be a little more performative.
Two sturdy teeth.
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I always thought I would be a terrible driver because I’m sort of a wafty person, but it turns out I am very good at staying in between the lines. I passed my test last year.
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