Martin Freeman
English actor
“I don’t love you.”
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People who have ghosted me for my politics.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.
Charlize Theron
South African-American actress
I can't think of anything.
Sebastian Coe
British athlete and politician
Not hearing the Ellington band live.
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A ballet dancer, and for a while I wanted to teach children with Down’s syndrome.
A really bad film for no money: the director had no idea what he was doing and I was wondering: why am I here?
About 40 years ago I drove off an embankment and tumbled down a huge hill. I was standing in the field with my car smashed like a can, saying, “Am I dead?” because I had seen myself dead in the car. Then someone said, “Are you OK?” and I didn’t have a scratch. I believe it was an angel experience.
Real love feels like freedom.
I am trying to find a little happiness at least once a day, so this morning.
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