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Loads. All the greats.
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I’ve never read Proust.
Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
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View profile →In the sea, somewhere hot. Looking back at people I love on the beach.
Comparing myself to other people.
Farting in front of Colin Firth.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
Curious, suggestible, silly.
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