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" Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness. "

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" Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically. "

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" When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous. "

" There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable. "

" You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development. "

" I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit. "

" I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened. "

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" I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it? "

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