Jessica Brown Findlay
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During lockdown, I found out I wasn’t pregnant any more.
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Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
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Ben Kingsley
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For a film called Eliza Graves. It hasn't been released yet, but then again they might have edited that weeping sequence out.
Sadie Frost
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In the last year, when I realised that I didn’t want to be in the relationship that I was in.
Tony Ross
British writer of children's books
When I discovered my cat was blind.
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View profile →Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
If I bothered to read instructions.
Analytical, extreme and playful.
Unbending opinions.
That I didn’t appreciate the smaller joys in life.
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