Harry Redknapp
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I would very, very much like to say sorry to my mother, for all the times I told her I hadn’t got the time to talk.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗
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Viv Albertine
Australian-born British musician and writer
I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
Dick Cheney for hating him for being one of the most destructive people on Earth.
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To lose my fourth baby.
Is all happiness in the past? Well, the births of three children. And playing with children and grandchildren.
In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.
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