Hints and tips:
...“I’m not exaggerating, but when you have Lyme disease you have to make a decision: do you have the energy to brush your teeth or make a cup of tea?...
...Youree Henley, who has worked on her films since 2009, and Lorenzo Mieli, the producer who worked on Priscilla, both attest to her collaborative instincts, and her willingness to listen and adapt....
...School, Maine Run by chef Annemarie Ahearn, this oceanfront culinary retreat runs workshops on modern country cooking as well as classes that honour the late female cooks Julia Child, Marcella Hazan and Edna...
...So I’m very care . . . I’m very sort of careful about that. Lilah RaptopoulosI’m stating the obvious here....
...Can you give me some pointers so I know I’m on the right track? Ah, sunglasses — better than any cream for concealing tired eyes and to give you that air of film star mystery....
...In my first year as an undergraduate, I would say I’m not black, I’m Nigerian....
...“After a while, I told him, ‘I’m not Italian!’” she laughs. “I’m black....
...So I’m very care--, I’m, I’m very sort of careful about that. Lilah RaptopoulosI’m stating the obvious here....
...When it comes to peaches I’m with Samuel Johnson, who was said by his close friend Mrs Thrale to eat seven or eight large peaches “of a morning before breakfast began”, then more after dinner....
...But I’m very rarely satisfied, I’m always looking to the next thing....
...“I’m hopeful that the world recognises what we have done.”...
...A precedent has been set by fellow UK drill alumnus Headie One, whose debut studio album Edna reached number one in the UK charts last month....
...On a chill, rain-swept evening last month in central London, Edna O’Brien stepped delicately on to a stage in the Royal Institute of British Architects....
...My mother never actually said the word, but spelt it out instead: “C-O-M-M-O-N”. Cryptic spelling, usually to protect the kiddies, was popular in my parents’ time....
...Don’t take Aunt Edna. But take anyone else. Whenever the jokes wear thin we fall back, a little vertiginously, on the two best performances....
...I’m not sure which. I still felt the warmth in my cheeks the following day. Caring for loved ones at the ends of their lives has taught me new things about consolation....
...Instead of finding a partner, she did it herself: “I’m tough and opinionated”....
...“Buddy,” she replied, “I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer . . . I go anywhere.”...
...“I’m only spending on the necessary — food and rent. For a luxury like a TV, this isn’t the time.” It is a common complaint....
...I’m too full.” Next: “Ooh! This is good. Hadn’t realised everything was so tasty.”...
...That, at least, had grown markedly by the time Stephen Adnitt designed Dame Edna Everage’s breakfast dress, a sartorial hymn to the dubious pleasures of the fry-up worn by the alter-ego of the Australian...
...(And no, I’m not telling you what the word is.)...
...Edna O’Brien gestures to her face, as though it were covered in wounds. In fact, the Irish novelist has lineless skin and hair the colour of a fox’s pelt....
...I think I’m probably not a good dancer, either. I don’t know what to make of it.” On one hand, I’m a bit staggered....
...He later hid for years as an alternative healer — as recreated in an astonishing novel by Edna O’Brien. There are degrees of nationalism of course....
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