To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
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To everyone I’ve bored.
The people I hurt when I was suffering with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
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Jobs that I saw on television, until I realised they were all played by actors – then I wanted to be an actor.
At the end of Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
My wedding day, eight years ago.
One of those robot vacuum cleaners.
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