Michelle Dockery
British actress
A teacher at my secondary school. We used to write and sing songs about him. Sorry, Sir! You were a great teacher.
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To anyone I’ve unintentionally hurt or upset.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2019 source ↗
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View all 209 →Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
Edith Bowman
Scottish radio DJ and television presenter
Martin Scorsese. I was, let’s say, slightly tactile with him during a Q&A; I was more nervous than I’ve been about anything. I kept tapping his knee, it might even have been bruised by the end.
Kate Nash
British musician
Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
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I look at my nephew, who is five years old and in a perpetual state of bliss; I imagine that’s what I was like when I was five. That’s not to say I am unhappy now; I was on top of the world walking through a park to work this morning.
The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
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