Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
Burt Reynolds
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The psalm would be the 23rd. I’ll have to think about the song.
Harriet Walter
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I went to a funeral where they played Cheek To Cheek: Fred Astaire singing “Heaven. I’m in heaven… ” Everyone smiled. I’d like that.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been close to death but I am a nervous flyer, especially during turbulence, so there have been many times where I’ve felt that I was.
To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
You suddenly get what people are talking about when they talk about being in love.
There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
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