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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
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Inner and Outer London
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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.
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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.
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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
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I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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