We’re not really allowed to cry where I’m from. I can only cry in summer, at the height of hay fever.
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While tracking wolves in Idaho, we came across a wolf carcass. It was likely the pack had been poisoned in a deliberate act. I am a hunter, but I respect wildlife and I also respect predators.
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Pauline McLynn
Irish character actress and author
Walking along Oxford Street on Saturday pulling a shopping trolley that my mother bought me. I remember saying, “I’m never going to use that!” and there I was, very grateful to have it in my life. She died before Christmas and I can’t ring her to tell her that she was right.
Stuart Broad
English former cricketer and commentator
I am not a crier.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
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View profile →My wife, Ruth, because she holds the fort, making it possible for me to do what I do.
Right now. I live in the present.
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
For being genuine.
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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