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This administration.
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My son. He is a teenager.
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Anything from the concept of human mortality to a faux pas I made at a party in 2005.
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Having got Aspects of Love back into the West End.
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A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.
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Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
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At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
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Two-faced phony-baloneys.
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Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
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