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Them Quotes by Jenny Downham
- As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young…
- The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.…
- Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across…
- Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If…
- I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
- It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they…
- There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and…
- I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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