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Accent, Bullying And Moving To New York
- Lucy Walker moved between schools and felt bullied for her accent before escaping to New York at 22 on a Fulbright to study film at NYU.
- She adapted her speech pragmatically in the U.S. and learned to accommodate diverse English speakers to be understood.
Sitting Opposite David Bowie
- Lucy describes meeting David Bowie in New York and feeling unexpectedly starstruck at an intimate dinner with several famous people.
- She says such encounters are confusing because celebrities become ordinary people across a dinner table.
Westminster, Freedom And Early Drug Use
- Lucy enjoyed Westminster's cultural freedoms but also smoked heavily and experimented with drugs between ages 16–19.
- She experimented with LSD, psilocybin and MDMA but avoided heroin and cocaine during that period.