A Quote by Dido Armstrong
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
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I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.
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