Michael Stipe
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Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.
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My mother, because I didn’t appreciate how proud she was of me being deputy prime minister. She ended up doing more press than me, and I was too sensitive and reacted.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
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To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
Every woman I dated before I met my wife, because I think I convinced too many people that they were the one, and they were not the one.
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician
Everybody, now and before, who was fleeing for their lives and wasn’t allowed into our country.
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To learn to relax and enjoy it.
Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
As an aggressive bugger.
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