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Actress

(6 stories)

Hardly anyone
uses the word actress now.
OED says so.

#130story

The deepest, the first
From the cut blood burst
Fangs bit hard quenching a thirst
Now the victim is dead and cursed
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After filming, I had to return Celia to the mainland. She was very keen to steer:
"I'm an actress, dear boy, and RADA trained!" #130story

A woman?
On stage?
Tredding the boards
And reading lines from the page?
How delightfully anti-Victorian
How thoroughly modern
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"That's a big bellend", no actress ever said to a Bishop during a peeling session for Sunday mass. #130story

"How much do you want the part?"
"Not enough to do that."
"Next!"
"I know your wife. We speak from time to time."
"!"
"Bye now."

#130story