Paul Giamatti
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Really? We have to keep bringing up the Nobel debacle?
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In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
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Alison Moyet
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When I heard John Noakes had died.
Bryan Cranston
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When I think of my mother. After my father left, she became an alcoholic and wallowed in resentment.
Jimmy Akingbola
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Yesterday, talking about my brother, who passed away.
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All the things I ought to have done.
My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.
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