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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, God, it's cold. Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
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Inner and Outer London
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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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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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I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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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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Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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