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When I was 13, I was on a bicycle and got hit by a taxi in New York.
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Tom Lubbock
Art critic
It is a very rare affliction. A GP would expect to meet it once in a career and this form of brain cancer is unpredictable and dangerous. Usually, this tumour might give you only a two-year span since its discovery. I have had two operations and one course of radiotherapy and now three chemotherapies (one currently starting). My death is, in a sense, imminent. I say to myself: I am dying. Something in my head is hurrying to kill me.
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Rita Wilson
American actress, singer, and producer
Having breast cancer.
Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
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Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
My children, and my sanity. For a child actor, I think it’s noteworthy.
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