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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2014 source ↗
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Aidan Gillen
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Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
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Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. And my headstone should read: “Game, set and match.”
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