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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
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Journey
Moments
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Life

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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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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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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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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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We make patterns, we share moments.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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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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Her skin tasted expensive.
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I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away? There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
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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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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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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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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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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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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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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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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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