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The Middle East crisis.
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Shirley Manson
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Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
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I wrote about this in our first quarter client letter, actually, the concept of polycrisis, and I talked about the fact that my belief is that we've all become firefighters.
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Maya Jama
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My phone and social media.
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I was doing The Seagull with Carey Mulligan and Kristin Scott Thomas on Broadway. I walked out on stage and looked at Carey and said: “I’ve no idea what to say.” It was pretty deep into the run and it took me by surprise.
Stimulating in every way.
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.
Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.
It would improve the quality of all of our lives if we just got rid of all unessential vehicles in New York City.
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