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Watching the Olympics.
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Meg Rosoff
American novelist
In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.
Emilia Fox
English actress and presenter
Listening to the last 10 minutes of the podcast S-Town. It is one of my favourite reminders of what life is truly all about.
Don Warrington
British actor
I am not a great crier.
Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
A couple of days ago, saying goodbye to my children.
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View profile →When I was 19 I worked at a gay bar while I was at drama school in London. One of the guys I worked with was Glaswegian and I learned the dialect from him. The acting teacher at the school said, “Liev, you’ve got the region but you’ve missed the character entirely” because I played Jimmy Boyle in a very camp Glaswegian accent.
I thought I’d be smarter by now.
An elevator operator.
My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
A car accident in British Columbia 35-40 years ago. I was driving too quickly on a dirt road and lost control of the car, and it went off a cliff and got stuck in some treetops. We were not at all hurt; we actually just climbed out.
Acting – it’s also the best, though.
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