David Harewood
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My first girlfriend when I left drama school. I was a bit of tart.
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To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
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Kiefer Sutherland
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There have been moments when I’d want to say sorry to both my parents for some of the stuff I’ve done.
Cynthia Nixon
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Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
My late wife – she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn’t be in that room, because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.
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View profile →It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
The realisation that I am no longer young.
Five years ago, a concrete plug, a little bigger than a baseball, fell off a building on Hollywood Boulevard when I was riding in an open convertible. It shattered the windshield. It really shook me. I still have it on my mantel.
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
Getting older and dying.
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