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After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
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Kate Mosse
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Last night, watching Grey’s Anatomy.
Stephen Dillane
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In the first room of the Australian art exhibition at the RA. Don't know why. Loved it.
Andy Serkis
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23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
Joanna Scanlan
British actress and writer
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
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That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
Making Apocalypse Now. I had a close call with a heart ailment due to anxiety, fear and physical abuse: I was not taking care of myself.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace.
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