On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
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I cry all the time. I like crying: it means that you’re more truly aware of a circumstance or a person or an event.
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Samira Ahmed
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Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
Geoffrey Rush
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When Adèle walked down the road at the end of the film Blue Is The Warmest Colour.
Bozoma Saint John
Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix
On Friday: my daughter won her volleyball game and my mom sent me videos, because I couldn’t be there. I cried wishing I’d been there to cheer her on.
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I feel lucky to have been in this business for as long as I have. When I think of the intake that I was with at Rada, only one other person is still an actor, an old fellow called Bill Gaunt.
The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
Aside from family life, which is the ultimate happiness, when I see or hear a great artist.
To be able to play the piano like Artur Schnabel.
Probably a suit. If you buy a good suit, it lasts beyond your lifetime.
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