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‟ Mum got me involved in every activity under the sun - singing, dancing and drama classes at the Anna Scher theatre school.
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‟ Dreams of a Life' and 'Fresh Meat' have left me on such a high. I'm not complaining but I'm not complacent either.
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‟ I think anyone who has been bullied finds it life-affirming if you live to tell the tale. I just wish someone told me at school that there's this weird average whereby if you're not popular at school you will become popular later.
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‟ I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.
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‟ I don't want to be 'de-ethnicised.' I hate it when people say, 'Oh I don't even think of you as a woman,' or, 'I don't even think of you as a black woman.' Well what do you think of me as then? A loaf of bread?
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‟ What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.
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‟ My drama teacher when I was a kid called me 'Zawe the activist' and I had no idea why. Now I've got older I can see why she always saw that in me.
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‟ I don't think there's a part that I've played or something I've written or directed that hasn't smacked of 'The Wizard Of Oz.' It's the film all roads lead to for me.
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‟ For me, the banner that I want to wave in terms of giving a jump start to writers of any gender is just to make female protagonists as complex as their male counterparts.
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‟ For me, food is all about nostalgia.
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‟ I'm training in martial arts. It's a whole new world for me and I'm loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.
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