Dame Judi Dench got her first tattoo at age 81
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Judi Dench celebrated her 81st birthday by getting her first tattoo. It's on her wrist and it says, "Carpe diem," which, of course, is basically Latin for "YOLO."
"That's my motto: 'Seize the day,'" Dench said, explaining that the tattoo was a surprise birthday present from her daughter. "Mind you, the company of A Winter's Tale, which I was doing at the time, used to say that it said 'fish of the day.'"
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
