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" There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't. "

Tracey Ullman

Thought

Class

Girl

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Good

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Environmentalism

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Irish

Down

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Ridiculous

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