Jeremy Deller
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An actor or a nun.
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Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
An actor. I watched a lot of TV because we lived in the countryside and the weather was so bad.
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At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
Having someone to love.
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