Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
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My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
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Jessica Brown Findlay
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My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
My soon-to-be ex-wife, Amanda. I wish I’d been able to do whatever would have been necessary all the way back to keep us as a unit. Probably the worst thing I did was not tell her how miserable I was, certain that I could turn this around somehow.
Christy Turlington Burns
American model
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
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If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
I didn’t email my grandfather enough before he passed away.
Dolly Parton. I love how she does what she wants, and lives how she wants, keeping her life so private. Also, she helped fund Covid vaccine research.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
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