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This reads as a fond memory that turns into a small heartbreak about limits. The speaker is describing childhood admiration for performance, then the painful discovery that enthusiasm does not guarantee a matching talent, which lands for anyone who has had a dream checked by a blunt reality.
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Originally said in English.
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About Tara Fitzgerald
English actress
Tara Fitzgerald is an English actress, best known for work across film, television, radio and the stage. Her career spans the 1990s and beyond, and she has 100 quotes on the site. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 for playing Ophelia in Hamlet, and in 1999 she received the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival for Frenchman’s Creek. Fitzgerald has also appeared in West End productions such as The Misanthrope and A Doll’s House, and since 2007 she has appeared in more than 30 episodes of Waking the Dead. She also played Selyse Baratheon in Game of Thrones.
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