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    All my world was a stage

    Dec 13, 2023 3 minutes

    Is there anything you can't leave home without?

    A candle with a comforting smell. And a sketchbook. I doodle a lot, and it makes me feel calm. And I'll take my iPad and draw on that with my Apple Pencil. I sit on set and do drawings and little sketches of people at work and then at the end of the job I'll give them as a card to cast and crew as a present.

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