English - Actress | May 18, 1941 -
I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?
Miriam Margolyes
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I still miss my parents every day; I adored them. And when you have no children, friends are even more important to you.
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I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.
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I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her.
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Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.
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My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.
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Nobody likes Jews. You can't say people like Jews. We're not popular. We're too smart to be liked. But it has been unacceptable to express anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
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I don't like religion.
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I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.
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Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.
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There's a strong melancholic streak in me.
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My mother died of a stroke in 1974, and for a long time, I blamed myself. She was utterly devastated when I told her I was a lesbian not long before.
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