John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
When my mom died, on 18 January this year.
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Michelle Dockery
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Watching Big Little Lies season 2. Shailene Woodley made me bawl.
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When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
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This morning, at the last school assembly of the year, because those tinies are so adorable.
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Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
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