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"Acting has been very useful to me."

Jane Asher, British Actress

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"Acting has been very useful to me."

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"I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself."

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"Acting has been very useful to me."

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