My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling … - Sylvia Townsend Warner

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I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

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