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I find it difficult to sit still.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2023 source ↗
The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
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View all 239 →The tendency to withdraw into myself.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
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View profile →After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.
To find as many moments to laugh as possible.
I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.
A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.
I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
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