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Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
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Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
Disappear by Beyoncé.
Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Ruth Jones
Welsh actress, producer, and writer
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
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