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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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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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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've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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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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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 made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
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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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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
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When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.
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