I cried after I won the Booker.
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Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
When Maradona died, I cried for three days.
Ronald Harwood
South African playwright and novelist
This morning. Thinking of my wife.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
Very recently, when a graduate at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology gave the most brilliant speech on behalf of the students at our first graduation.
I play Classic FM in the car – emotional music brings me to tears thinking about people I’ve loved and lost.
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View profile →A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.
The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
Disappear by Beyoncé.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
When I met my husband, David, in 2006, on Dating Direct.
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