Cynthia Nixon
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Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
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My kids. I think if you don’t want to say sorry to your kids you’ve been an appalling parent.
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Jenna Coleman
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Anybody who’s written to me and not heard back yet.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
Everybody I’ve lost to suicide. When someone dies in that tragic way, you always feel you could have done more.
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Should talk less.
Right now, like I have no intention of going anywhere else.
Younger people being amazed that I know what song they’re listening to.
I’m so tempted to answer serial killer.
When I was 16, my dad got drunk at the Oval cricket ground and harangued Sir Garry Sobers, possibly the greatest cricketer of all time, because he didn’t agree with who he’d given as man of the match.
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